Greg Ginn Quotes
SST was formed to put out the first Black Flag record. Basically, there wasn't anyone else to do it. I felt that what I was doing with Black Flag was very worthwhile, and I wanted to get it out there.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming because of pollution at our local beach. Twenty-five years later, I'm a board member of Oceana, the world's largest international organization dedicated to ocean conservation.
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Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to make films. That's really all I ever wanted to do.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.
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The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.
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For me, music was the only reason I went to school. I was kind of a street kid, in a lot of trouble committing crimes and stuff. Music gave me something to focus on.
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When I was younger, I thought about retiring.
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America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.
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Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.
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My job is being 'Mrs. Ronald Reagan.'
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A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
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Building stuff. Lifting blocks. That's how I got stronger. I never lifted weights. I just did masonry work with my pops.
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You never want to rest on your laurels. You want to keep doing things that terrify you.
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Design accelerates the adoption of new ideas. And many of these ideas are important for designers to show that there is a way. When you see things through that lens, you realize it applies to any industry and any form of design.
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When people do things for you, it's because they want to - because you, in some way, give them something meaningful that makes them want to please you, not because anyone owes you anything.
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The best physique I ever had was when I was ballet dancing.
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You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.
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Here's the truth: even if countries like the United States curb our emissions, if growing countries like India - with soaring energy needs - don't also embrace cleaner fuels, then we don't stand a chance against climate change.
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Simplicity is the key of elegance.
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If boomers were always looking to shock, millennials are eager to share.
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I love coming to work every single day.
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SST was formed to put out the first Black Flag record. Basically, there wasn't anyone else to do it. I felt that what I was doing with Black Flag was very worthwhile, and I wanted to get it out there.
