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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Sometimes you have to scare people to save their lives. But I'm very much against it if you're trying to sell a product.
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I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.
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An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks.
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I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.
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Some people aren't comfortable with being comfortable. Some people really want to be pushed and find people that they can pull something out of you that you didn't know you had, and you can scare yourself.
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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.
