Greg Ginn Quotes
The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and its important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that instant gratification.
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Slack users I know, including me, love many things about the service. As the company likes to brag, it's fast, it's transparent, and it's great for brainstorming.
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I'm very self-critical.
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Everyone at Junction Point has been inspired by the creative folks at Pixar and Disney Feature Animation to make 'entertainment for everyone.'
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The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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If you employ an army, have money, bombard cyberspace with misinformation, innocent people tend to buy it.
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Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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That's a beautiful thing. The more successful you are, the more people are going to come and be a part of music.
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To dissociate politicians from capitalists is slightly disingenuous, to put it mildly. U.S. lawmakers are competitive and auction themselves to the highest bidder via the lobby system.
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Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
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Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
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The world is a global economy. I thought, 'It's a bummer we don't have a unifying currency.' Then I saw Bitcoin had already had a crash and had the resistance to recover. The community was strong enough to push it through again. That's really exciting.
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After September 11, when the United States took action to overthrow the Taliban, our interests and Iran's aligned, and we were able to coordinate quietly but effectively.
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I left my mark on 'Dark Shadows.' One day I was doing my lines perfectly from Act 3. Everyone else was doing Act 2.
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You still slightly down that you're ever going to work again, every time you finish something. That's the territory of being an actor. It's like anything that's competitive. It takes a lot of determination. I just feel lucky to be able to do something that I really love.
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I've gotten over that by now. But I remember the first time reading the book, I was like, 'Wait, Jacob's been trying to get Bella this entire time, and he strikes out, so he goes for her child?' I was so confused. It took me a second.
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Abortion's a private decision. But I just think it shouldn't be federalized.
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That's a real problem when people bring exotics into their homes. Sometimes it's by accident, but sometimes it's on purpose.
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We're beautiful devices. The devices work well; we're all experts in what we do. But when the mechanism fails, those failures can tell you a lot about how the mind works.
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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Writing's still the most difficult job I've ever had - but it's worth it.
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Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.
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Every father loves their children. I love my two sons very dearly. The only thing that is important to me is that they do what they want to do. They shouldn't feel a sense of obligation.
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The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and its important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that instant gratification.
