Ian MacKaye Quotes
With Napster and the sharing of music, of course, there are going to be people who exploit it. Greed has no end. But there's a lot of good that could happen. We shouldn't let the economic concerns of the major labels infringe on our freedom to share music.
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I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
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A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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I don't know how you make decisions in your life, but I weigh lots of things, and it's not always the purest of things for why I take a job or do this. I always try to think of the many different factors in my life, and not one is pure greed. One is pure quality of life.
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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I want to pursue a career in film.
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I grew up playing basketball and baseball. I've always been active because my dad played professional football, so sports and working out have always been a part of my life.
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Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
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The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
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With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book. Now I think I've kind of, sort of figured out how to write a book a little bit better. But the process remains not that different - slow; laborious; tiny, incremental progress each day, punctuated by feelings of despair and self-loathing.
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All of our existing ideas have creative possibilities.
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Whether that's questioning the dominant opinion of the day, the conventional wisdom of the day, or whether it's questioning the policies that come out of Washington, or out of our government, generally, I think media's job is to look at it and say, "What's really going on here? What's the story behind what you see?"
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I sang in church, but growing up in the neighborhood, music was more of an expression of relief or entertainment.
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Although I was entirely relaxed on camera, if I had to stand up and say something to an assembled group of people, I was rendered all but inarticulate.
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With Napster and the sharing of music, of course, there are going to be people who exploit it. Greed has no end. But there's a lot of good that could happen. We shouldn't let the economic concerns of the major labels infringe on our freedom to share music.
