Tim McIlrath Quotes
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There's certain things as a songwriter that I don't really care to write about, and there are certain things I won't sing about anymore. There are just so many things that I probably thought was OK for me, or have been in the past, that I would never want my son to think was OK.
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The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
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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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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
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I have no regrets at all. I have done quite well for myself. I didn't have a conventional face, but I have done well, and I am proud of it.
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Obamacare is going to destroy the elderly by denying care, by even perhaps denying treatment to people who are in catastrophic circumstances.
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There is absolutely no reason in the world of blockchain to build in net settlement. It's like saying you have got a new Ferrari and we are going to put a lawnmower engine in it.
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Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.
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My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.
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I don't think we should tell them what we're going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling thing of all.
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I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.
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As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide justice.
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Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
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Income inequality is one thing, but a permanent division into the haves and have-nots is an entirely different thing - and much less acceptable.
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I'm not just a time triallist any more.
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I'm usually told to do a take where I do less with my face.
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I'm a very laboured writer. I hammer it out sentence by sentence, and it takes a long time. That's what the work is, right? To make the reader think it is not hard to do.
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The hat is the pride of man; for he who cannot keep his hat on before kings and emperors is no free man.
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The time that we kill keeps us alive.
