Mac DeMarco Quotes
I'm just being myself. I'm not a very complex guy; I'm not a very studious, crazy intellectual guy. I'm just a guy.
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I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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For me, seeing the target and not seeing the target doesn't make any difference.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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I love cooking and baking.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
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We do not have the idea that all children are valuable parts of society. We only have the idea that our own children are.
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I am going to keep having fun every day I have left, because there is no other way of life. You just have to decide whether you are a Tigger or an Eeyore.
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Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.
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A lot of my work concerns a crisis of agency - what can we do?
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I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.
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I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new.' He said, 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren.' I never forgot that because... I thought that was a compliment.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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Fashion has a long interest in collaborative situations.
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
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It's just really fulfilling to celebrate with a group of folks, a team, than it is personally.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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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.
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It's crazy: when it's raining, it makes no sense to me that people drive 10 miles an hour faster than they normally would, but then the other thing that makes no sense is when people drive 30 miles an hour slower than normal.
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Discipline is tough for a guy who is a rebel.
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I didn't care about being the 'star.' I just wanted to make a living and have a consistent career.
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Well, I don't think just because people are in a relationship that they're happy. I don't think relationships necessarily make people happy. You just are happy or you're not happy.
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I'm just being myself. I'm not a very complex guy; I'm not a very studious, crazy intellectual guy. I'm just a guy.
