Ian MacKaye Quotes

Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era that no longer exists. I'm not nostalgic. I think music today is much more important, because something can be done about it.

Ian MacKaye

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• My dinner spot is usually in front of the TV. I'll grill a steak and whip up a salad and watch 'Hoarders'. I love it because a) I'm kind of voyeuristic, and b) every time I see an episode, I go to the one room where all my unpacked boxes wound up, and I throw out a box of stuff.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • See
  • Throw

• Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Pretty
  • Girl
  • See

• Cultures and races are mixing in a very organic way in the world, and that should be reflected in film and television.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • World
  • Film
  • Television

• I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Family
  • Business
  • Funny

• I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Earth
  • Computers
  • Studying

• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Protect
  • Harm

• Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.

  

  Bart Stupak
  • Money
  • Fighting
  • Measure

• In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a 'continent,' a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Life
  • Child
  • Development

• When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • Fairness
  • Wage
  • Minimum Wage

• Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Men
  • Government
  • Turn

• I like to relate to my kids as they are. I enjoy spending that time with them. I see that my girls are so completely different and different from me, too.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Time
  • Different
  • Kids

• But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.

  

  Ralph Adams Cram
  • May
  • Soul
  • Freedom

• I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.

  

  Maluma
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Talent

• I think everybody should focus on inner beauty.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Think
  • Focus
  • Beauty

• My creativity all comes from the same place. I wear one very comfortable, large hat.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Creativity
  • Same
  • Hat

• I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'

  

  Laura Linney
  • Work
  • Want
  • Matter

• The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Identity
  • Own
  • Weakness

• When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.

  

  Ted Kotcheff
  • You
  • Film
  • Integrity

• The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Believe
  • Age
  • Know

• Anyone with the right mix of parental paranoia and entrepreneurial moxie can make a fortune by selling parents the equipment we think will keep us one step ahead of our kids.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Kids
  • Think
  • Parents

• Aggressive female icons have been chronically demeaned... It's fine for male artists to be angry - they're encouraged to outwardly express their aggression - but women? I've been painted as an aggressive Feminazi because I'm blunt, stubborn, independent, forthright.

  

  Lydia Lunch
  • Women
  • Independent
  • Angry

• I spend long days wearing a corset - but no pain, no gain.

  

  Phyllis Logan
  • Long
  • Pain

• The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.

  

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

• Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era that no longer exists. I'm not nostalgic. I think music today is much more important, because something can be done about it.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Life
  • Music
  • Believe