Mac DeMarco Quotes
I was having a good time before, but you grow up after a couple years and realize, "I can't get drunk like this every night." Things change.
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Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.
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Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.
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I get a lot of influence from pro wrestling. People are like, 'Oh, it's fake.' But it's not about whether the guy wins or loses, it's about how he entertains you the whole time you're watching.
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Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
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The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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On June 23, 1864, Ambrose Bierce was in command of a skirmish line of Union soldiers at Kennesaw Mountain in northern Georgia. He'd been a soldier for three years and, in that time, had been commended by his superiors for his efficiency and bravery during battle.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been.
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Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.
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Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it.
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I don't think Christ becomes real to us until we hit a low point in our lives and realize just how much we need Him. That's why faith affects every area of your life.
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The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.
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Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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I actually was the captain of the football team. I went to Catalina Foothills High School, and I played football all four years. I started on Varsity my sophomore year, and senior year I was captain.
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I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare.
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There's not much TV these days where you really get that element of surprise. There are so many spoilers all the time.
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After 1909, Monet drastically enlarged his brushstrokes, disintegrated his images, and broke through the taming constraints and delicacy of Impressionism for good. Nineteen gnarly paintings, starting in 1909 and carrying through his final seventeen years, finish off the notion that Monet went happily ever after into lily-land.
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Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.
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Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
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I was having a good time before, but you grow up after a couple years and realize, "I can't get drunk like this every night." Things change.
