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.
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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.
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Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.
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Cultures and races are mixing in a very organic way in the world, and that should be reflected in film and television.
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I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
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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.
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But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
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I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
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I think everybody should focus on inner beauty.
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My creativity all comes from the same place. I wear one very comfortable, large hat.
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I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'
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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.
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When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
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The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by man-dominated structures within our movement, as also because of equally traditionalist attitudes of surrender and submission on the part of women.
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Fortunately, no country was ever more suited for anarchist agitation than present-day America.
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The primitive style makes nature look like stage scenery.
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I like being a leader in real life.
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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.
