Ian MacKaye Quotes
Music is a language and different people who come along are each using that language to do something different, but all coming at it in a similar vein inasmuch as it's always community based and for the most part nonprofit. Most bands don't ever come within a mile of profit - clearly these people are not playing music to make money.
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I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
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Whatever your political affiliation may be, whether you are a conservative or liberal, we should all be bound by the belief that we need to support the troops.
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I'd love to play Moon Knight. I don't know if anybody's doing a Moon Knight animated series any time soon.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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I want to pursue a career in film.
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I couldn't follow nobody's rules.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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Anytime you get to work with an actor who is beyond you in experience and talent, I feel like they make you a better actor. You really bring up your game.
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Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.
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When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write.
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God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.
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I did try fillers once. Don't ever have fillers because when your cheekbones are high, it's chipmunk time.
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In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging.
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My father was overbearing. Very controlling. He was always the way he is, even before my success. He was not always a good person. He'd play mind games to make sure I knew my place. I don't see him, which is unfortunate. But I don't have any desire to see him. I vaguely know where he is, and I don't want to know.
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My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.
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I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
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Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.
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Since we desire the true happiness that is brought about by a calm mind, and such peace of mind arises only from having a compassionate attitude, we need to make a concerted effort to develop compassion.
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I sell my first book to Random House, a memoir of my years as a war photographer, for twice my NBC salary.
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It's disgusting that a Broadway show can't try out anymore, that no matter where they are in the world, there is this massive dialogue going on between people damning or praising it.
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What I believe to be jazz is constructed and improvised music which is in the air right now. But I don't think that's most people's definition of jazz, you know? We don't know what we're talking about, because we don't know the definition.
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Music is a language and different people who come along are each using that language to do something different, but all coming at it in a similar vein inasmuch as it's always community based and for the most part nonprofit. Most bands don't ever come within a mile of profit - clearly these people are not playing music to make money.
