Ian MacKaye Quotes
I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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Someone told me, 'When you go see Pearl Jam, it's going to be a spiritual experience,' and it was. It was my first time seeing them live, and I've been a lifelong fan. Eddie Vedder's voice is a million times better live, and I couldn't believe the passion he put into every single song.
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If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably the only thing my parents wouldn't complain about.
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The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of education in South Africa, two African students had passed the JC with a First Class degree, regarded as a rare achievement for any student.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.
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People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next election.
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Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split.
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If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.
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Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.
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If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.
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Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.
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Horseback riding is my passion. Other than work. People can't imagine me getting dirty, but that's what I love about it.
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I have a friendship with Hezbollah, and I also have contacts outside of Lebanon, but it doesn't mean I follow anyone's agenda.
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I mean, I like to consider myself a reasonably athletic guy.
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If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.
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It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
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With the sole exception of President Bill Clinton, whose 'bridge to the 21st century' evoked the vision and optimism of other great Democratic presidents of the 20th century, such as FDR and John F. Kennedy, pessimism about America's economic future has been the hallmark of modern progressivism.
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In my lab, we're finding that psychological stress actually ages cells, which can be seen when you measure the wearing down of the tips of the chromosomes, those telomeres.
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Part of that is that New York has proved to be too much fun for me to live and work; I love New York so much.
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In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.
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I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.
