Ian MacKaye Quotes
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
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There's all sorts of stuff people want to publish anonymously.
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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
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Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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I just like music that I can relate to, something to listen to in my car.
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There are some things that money can't buy: peace of mind, for starters, and lean muscle mass. Neither the Queen of England nor the founder of Microsoft can put in an order for either one.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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After five years in Ferrari, being second all the time, I think it was enough for me.
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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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Much of the time in the writer's room is spent working on story, and I was always challenging myself to make it more interesting, tighter and more surprising: to come at it sideways in a way that the audience wasn't expecting.
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I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
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I wouldn't cross the street to hear Ingersoll preach on the mistakes of Moses, but I'd love to hear Moses preach on the mistakes of Ingersoll!
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You can see some very great theatre actors who don't work at all well on screen. They're trying too hard at it.
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If prayer puts God to work on earth, then, by the same token, prayerlessness rules God out of the world's affairs and prevents Him from working.
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I just have work to do; I just do it.
