Mac DeMarco Quotes
If people are talking about you, that's great. You start making more money, that's great. You get to go to weird places, that's great. The music industry is weird, especially with the Internet. People are calling you all kinds of weird stuff, like 'jangly.'
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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
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Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
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Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.
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The patient decides when it's best to go.
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I grew up being a dancer, so I was always doing some sort of dance number, like the Tornado in 'The Wiz.'
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In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
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When it comes down to it, Hillary Clinton will very much excite the Republican faithful to get out and work hard. I don't know if a similar case can be made if Obama is the candidate.
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Strange, is it not, my brothers, how often in America those great watchwords of human energy - 'Be strong!' 'Know thyself!' 'Hitch your wagon to a star!' - how often these die away into dim whispers when we face these seething millions of black men? And yet do they not belong to them? Are they not their heritage as well as yours?
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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If I can just be thought of as Omari Hardwick who had a really, really solid career, and whose work is appreciated in its own right, I think that would be a great legacy to leave behind.
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Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I shall always be a priest of love.
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When you're putting good stuff into your body, you feel so much better.
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As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.
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The government should move towards supporting aspirations and not entitlement. Subsidies supporting non-productive growth should be reduced.
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Mumbai is like Manhattan. There's a certain pace, a social life and the thrill of a professional life.
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It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
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The range of my interests in science fiction - it really does run a gamut.
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I enjoy walking my dog and completing crossword puzzles.
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If people are talking about you, that's great. You start making more money, that's great. You get to go to weird places, that's great. The music industry is weird, especially with the Internet. People are calling you all kinds of weird stuff, like 'jangly.'
