Ian Matthias Bavitz (Aesop Rock) Quotes
You can't get someone to like something they aren't feeling. After you press play, there isn't anything you can do.
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Well I love preppy style; I like J. Crew for guys.
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Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
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Growing up, there were no families on TV that looked like mine.
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I feel like I'm supposed to be a shooter.
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I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that.
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There are a lot of guys who play in pro-style offenses who are not prepared when they come out of college. Either you're coaching the quarterback to be a quarterback, or you're not.
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I'd like 'Rookie' to be a helpful resource, but I never want it to be too prescriptive. Hopefully, it also makes the reader feel encouraged to think for herself.
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Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.
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When I was a lad in my 20s, as carefree and debonair as any other underpaid newspaperman, I happened to be a golfer who could flirt with par fairly often, and I was adventurous enough in those days to play any known or unknown thief who showed up at Goat Hills for whatever amount he fancied.
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The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.
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I thought maybe I could become like the next Van Gogh. I bought a sunflower and painted it, and it looked like the work of a 6-year-old.
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Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours.
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I like real people - salt-of-the-earth men.
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I found it really hard for a couple of years to do any writing because all I wanted to do was play the fiddle. From the minute I took it up, I just couldn't put it down.
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I totally want, like, 18 babies.
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I play the keyboard, piano - I like making beats.
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Any time anyone says anything nice about me, whether it's Lady Gaga or your neighbor, it's a nice feeling, I'm very grateful for it. It's very helpful for your career. Every time someone says something complimentary it introduces you to their audience. It gives you credibility.
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I like squirrels. They're so adventurous.
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Doing a TV show is different because it's more of a TV version of something. A more focused take on things.
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I grew up looking at my father as to how to behave. In watching him I grasped so many things. His own temperament was of a calm person. He was very composed and I never saw anger in him. To me, that was fascinating.
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I can be extremely vulnerable. People are tough on me because they think I can handle it.
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It has always surprised me that in a world of relations as hard as that of the United States, cordiality constantly springs out like water from an unstanchable fountain.
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I found him to be a quiet man. He kept mostly to himself, he was a great star. This was my first big thing: I felt lucky and grateful I was with these people.
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You can't get someone to like something they aren't feeling. After you press play, there isn't anything you can do.
