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 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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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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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested.
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Acting for me is very therapeutic. It's my shrink.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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All the Buddhas of all the ages have been telling you a very simple fact: Be - don't try to become. Within these two words - being and becoming, your whole life is contained. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.
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In England, I suppose I have been known to once or twice tune into 'Big Brother', which is a pretty terrible guilty pleasure.
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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.
