Greg Ginn Quotes
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But since we've been fighting for first or second place, it's grabbed the media's attention. I enjoy racing them. They are a good team and when you beat them it's something to be proud of.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.
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There's more to life than physical and material.
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I don't know the history of my sport. I'm not like those people who know everything.
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I've got four kids - I unblock a toilet every day.
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I'm someone that examines culture and tries to break down why things are the way that they are whether its hip-hop music, sex, race, or consumerism. I try to examine it and scrutinize it to the point where I can write a song.
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But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.
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I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.
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Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that's very important for good health.
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It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?'
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Those of us who lived under communism for most of our lives were looking toward the Western world because of its values, emphasis on democracy, individual liberties and freedom, and economic prosperity.
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And also, I think Japan places great value on the lyrics.
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Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.
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My mom was an artist, and she had this amazing ability to transform everything into something beautiful.
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I've always wanted a 'Full House' reunion, so when you see stuff like this comes back, it's super exciting.
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Rolf Ekeus, his appearance can deceive. He looks somewhere between an international diplomat and a mad professor. He's got that sort of shock of white hair and a slightly absent-minded way of speaking. But he's extremely sharp and very serious about power relationships.
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No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
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As a songwriter it's kind of hard to listen to your own stuff with clarity.
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My stuff was more of a folk coffeehouse thing, with more acoustic guitar, just me doing a single, and then adding on instruments and voices, with emphasis on lyrics and singing and light kind of acoustic jazz.
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Bop is no love-child of jazz.
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You have to go out and learn jazz by playing.
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People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.
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I like a lot of electronica. I like older jazz rather than newer.
