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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A few weeks after my mom passed in November of 2013, I came back from an injury and entered the Egg Bowl in the second half against Ole Miss. I'll never forget the feeling when I walked back out on the field. As I walked into the Egg Bowl, the crowd stood up and clapped like they were enveloping me in a giant hug.
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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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I still have my old Nintendo 64 that works. And I hook it up, and I still play the original 'Goldeneye.' I'm that geek. I have an 'NBA Jam' arcade machine in my office at 'SNL.'
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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 like to be left alone when I'm not working.
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Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
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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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I like to play guitar, jam out, play the blues, go watch movies. I love movies.
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I've always refused to play terrorists.
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For a band like us tracklisting is a massive, massive task.
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A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.
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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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I'm a triathlete. Running is when I do my best living and my best thinking. I love the discipline, pushing yourself to suffer as much as you can, because it leads to a form of redemption.
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I think that with podcasts, a lot of things are about fostering and having a direct connection with the community.
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Social justice is a cancer. Social justice means you are ruled by whatever the mob does. What social justice does is destroy individual responsibility.
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We’re very impatient. We don’t believe that in bands you should dwell on the future. Any band that you and I have listened to, if it’s overworked, if it’s thought about before then, it’s never going to happen. I think you have to be writing, you have to be arguing, you have to be in that environment.
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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.
