Joe Principe Quotes
That is definitely the heart and soul of Rise Against — that passion to inspire change for the better.
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Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.
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I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
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There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a violent culture, we just can't get away from it, it's part of our heritage. I think part of it is that we've always felt somewhat helpless in the face of this vast continent. Helplessness is answered in many ways, but one of them is violence.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.
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He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
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One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
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There are some tremendous actors in the U.K. who have been knighted, and I've spent much of my life admiring many of them, like Laurence Olivier. So it's very flattering to be in their company.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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My buildings are not particularly expensive. It is not a tin shed. If you want a tinny car, you pay for that.
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I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me.
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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YouTube has become more mature, both as a platform and as a community. So much content has been added in almost every conceivable category that there are no more free passes on just getting there first. I think there are greater expectations for audience participation, the kind of participation that makes a real impact in a show's community.
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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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Whenever people ask me what the story is for my next film, I won't tell and people feel it's because I'm being secretive or something, but it's actually because I'm ashamed to sum up a film in three sentences.
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I didn't want there to be a computer on stage. When I see people with computers on stage, I think, 'Are you sending e-mail?' That's so corny.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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I went to the U.S. to start my modeling career at a very young age. So, venturing into films and handling the pressure isn't a big task.
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We talk a lot about how abortion is a medical procedure, but actually if you look at what the other side is doing, they're trying to legislate a very narrow, pretty extreme ideological worldview on the American people.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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But movies as much as anything developed what I thought was right and wrong, what was honorable, what wasn't, what was funny what wasn't... what had some depth to it, what didn't.
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I think, for me, one of the biggest things that I struggle with is keeping the excitement up when writing a song. A lot of times, I'll get pretty frustrated early on.
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That is definitely the heart and soul of Rise Against — that passion to inspire change for the better.
