Mac DeMarco Quotes
You know, when your poisoning your body night after night after night, you end up chipping a couple years off your life. I've always wanted to be able to do this and now that I am, it's hard to complain.
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I told the Mucinex people, 'You picked me because I always sound sick'. They were like, 'Well, it doesn't hurt'.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
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Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
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There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me.
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When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.
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'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.
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To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
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I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.
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There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.
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If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.
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If we follow the traditional way of thought, there will always be traditional enemies. Extremist circles from both sides will find causes to give rise to problems.
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We never have business meals at El Bulli. If it's about business, you're probably not paying much attention to the food.
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Those no-sooner-have-I-touched-the-pillow people are past my comprehension. There is something suspiciously bovine about them.
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It is not impossible to suppose that in this case our luminary was taken in the act.
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You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear.
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The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.
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You know, when your poisoning your body night after night after night, you end up chipping a couple years off your life. I've always wanted to be able to do this and now that I am, it's hard to complain.
