Ian MacKaye Quotes
There's also a lot of skateboard stuff, because I was a skateboarder. Somewhere around here I have one of my original boards.
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I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.
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It's been a long slog back, and we've still got a long way to go.
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My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever did.
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I don't have a goal but I just want to work on movies that I really like.
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Don't you dare print my first name. That would make me sound like a real country girl.
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I'm not into pancake things. I'm into eggs. Lots of eggs.
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When I was eight, a hippie guy taught me how to meditate and gave me this scarf I was supposed to wear when I meditated. I still have it; it's probably one of the items that mean most to me.
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I would rather be lying in a bed than changing one.
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Our technology promises the magic of constant connectedness. Yet we feel loss in being atomized on separate screens, trapped in filter bubbles of belief, bobbing in a sharing economy in which the technologists seem to own all the shares.
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When I testify, I'll testify. I don't need to sit around chewing my fingernails.
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I firmly believe that in every situation, no matter how difficult, God extends grace greater than the hardship, and strength and peace of mind that can lead us to a place higher than where we were before.
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I think in life everyone needs to be broken in some way,
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As a producer or financier, you are going to go where you get the best bang for your buck.
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You guys ready to do this?
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I think the general public is going to be surprised by this. It's not out there yet.
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When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing... And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know...
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There's no New York rapper who's out that is competing with me because first of all, I'm the best.
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A hero is someone who rebels or seems to rebel against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them. Obviously that can only work at moments. It can't be a lasting thing. That's not saying that people shouldn't keep trying to rebel against the facts of existence. Someday, who knows, we might conquer death, disease and war.
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I watched John Frusciante of the Red Hot Chili Peppers play it acoustically at their gig at the MEN Arena. I think I can safely say that, of the 19,000 people there, 18,950 didn’t know what it was—but I did, and it brought a tear to my eye, definitely. Monster bass line. A bass line that every bass player dreams of and I got it, so thank you.
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There has never been a day when I have not been proud of you, I said to my Son though some days I'm louder about other stuff so it's easy to miss that.
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I don't know anything about this engagement stuff. I never thought I was going to get engaged.
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There's also a lot of skateboard stuff, because I was a skateboarder. Somewhere around here I have one of my original boards.
