Greg Ginn Quotes

I didn't have a lot of overtly political songs. I think it was more the actions of the group that were threatening to the authorities, and also our political philosophies apart from the music.

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• We ended up New Year's Eve playin' a show. My date had stood me up, and I remember walkin' back to my friends with, like, two minutes before midnight and thinkin', 'I'm not gonna have anybody to kiss on New Year's.' And there she was, standin' right there, and I remember kissin' her, and then that was game over.

  

  Zac Brown Band
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• Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we'll swing to heavy regulation. We need to have balanced regulation to encourage the economy.

  

  Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
  • Need
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  • Bank

• I feel like you are doing better for the world if you're honoring you because everything is getting the authentic you.

  

  Taylour Paige
  • World
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  • Doing

• To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.

  

  Samantha Morton
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• Mankind: A quality of life upgrade is available to each and every one of you. It should give you a quality of life upgrade, which means no drugs, no alcohol, no fast food - unless, of course, it's a mallard.

  

  Ted Nugent
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• My mum is a bit unconventional; she's outdoorsy and has more of an emotional intelligence, whereas my dad is pragmatic; he's a businessman.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • She
  • Dad
  • Emotional

• I don't think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion.

  

  Barry Williams
  • Live
  • Love
  • Passion

• All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.

  

  Ferguson Jenkins
  • Way
  • Support
  • Personal

• I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • Believe
  • School
  • Happy

• Banks are slowly but surely lending again, and never again will taxpayers foot the bill for Wall Street's excesses. In case we forgot, that was the change we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Change
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  • President

• If you want to see the real Pablo Escobar, go see a documentary.

  

  Wagner Moura
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  • See

• I'll always love rap, no matter what's going on.

  

  Nas
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  • Rap

• You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal that's lonely to find friends, or a small furry animal that's lost to find its parents; it lasts as long as a quick avowal of love; it lasts precisely as long as the average parent is disposed on a Tuesday night to spend reading aloud to children.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Time
  • Children
  • Friends

• One should also remember that the U.S. is the biggest exporter of torture weapons in the world, though the U.K. is not far behind in the league table. We never stopped, even under Robin Cook's supposedly ethical foreign policy.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • World
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  • Ethical

• The heart is the best reflective thinker.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Heart
  • Best
  • Thinker

• Broadcasts from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange have propelled once-obscure financial journalists such as Maria Bartiromo to celebrity status and made CNBC to investors what ESPN is to sports fans.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Sports
  • Financial
  • Celebrity

• I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever - wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
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  • Long

• I've been married a couple of times and survived!

  

  Pamela Anderson
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• Drama moves us: conflict is an inherent pattern in reality. Harmony moves us too: faced as we are with ever imminent disorder. It is a powerful idea. Van Gogh's drama and Seurat's silent harmony were born in the same country and epoch: but they do not contradict one another; they refer to different patterns among those which constitute reality.

  

  Mark Rothko
  • Different
  • Country
  • Reality

• Stop being tomented by everyone else's reaction to you.

  

  Joyce Meyer
  • You
  • Reaction
  • Tomented

• There are plenty of writers, past and present, from Shakespeare to Henry James to Lydia Davis, who test the limits of coherence and put pressure on current notions of accessible (and acceptable) narrative methods. To thrive and change and grow, any art needs this kind of pressure.

  

  Joanna Scott
  • Art
  • Past
  • Present

• I work a lot, and it's kind of like, you meet people, and you just click. It's not like I'm looking at something and thinking: 'South Park' - how do I get on that?' I just became friends with those guys first. They're nice guys.

  

  Bill Hader
  • People
  • Work
  • Thinking

• Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad.

  

  Edward Bond
  • Mad

• I didn't have a lot of overtly political songs. I think it was more the actions of the group that were threatening to the authorities, and also our political philosophies apart from the music.

  

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