Tim McIlrath Quotes

And rock being a male-dominated, testosterone-driven place that I've been in the eye of the hurricane now for several years, I realized that it can be a place that can perpetuate homophobic behavior unless it's addressed by bands like us.

Tim McIlrath Rise Against

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• Hurricane
• Testosterone
• Male-dominated

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• I never understood the idea of canceling a show when you don't like the politics of a specific state.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Never
  • Politics
  • Idea

• I've been described as a grizzled political veteran.

  

  Joe Klein
  • Political
  • Veteran

• The best way to keep water prices down is to avoid unnecessary increases in costs.

  

  Doug Ducey
  • Water

• I have learned that raising children is the single most difficult thing in the world to do. It takes hard work, love, luck, and a lot of energy, and it is the most rewarding experience that you can ever have.

  

  Janet Reno
  • World
  • Work
  • Children

• Whether I'm telling stories in songs or if directing is the next step, being a storyteller is what I like doing.

  

  Kelly Jones

• When I was a child, I loved old people. My New Hampshire grandfather was my model human being.

  

  Donald Hall
  • People
  • Model

• It's a long road to the Derby, but I think he's got the capabilities to do it, ... He's never done anything that would make us second guess him, and hopefully we can keep on going.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Long
  • Done
  • Road

• I'm never aiming to make a movie like someone else's movie, but in order to describe a movie to someone else who hasn't seen it, you usually have to reference things they have seen.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Movie
  • Order

• You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • World
  • Place
  • Easy

• You don't get the pay-off when you're playing a quiet character, so sometimes you want to just throw out all your work and say, "Okay, let me do something really funny or gimmicky, just so that I can get some attention in this scene."

  

  Viola Davis
  • Character
  • Attention
  • Sometimes

• Let the bucket of memory down into the well, bring it up. Cool, cool minutes. No one stirring, no plans. Just being there.

  

  William Stafford
  • Memories
  • Minutes
  • Plans

• This is the age of oddities let loose.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Age
  • Loose

• Don't stop me now, I'm having such a good time, I'm having a ball.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • Ball
  • Good Time
  • Don't Stop

• We went to all the local radio stations. We even went all the way down to Detroit, into Windsor.

  

  Bobby Balderrama Question Mark & the Mysterians
  • Detroit
  • Went
  • Radio Station

• Jim wanted to be known as a poet, first and foremost.

  

  Ray Manzarek The Doors
  • Poet
  • Foremost
  • Jim

• I'm optimistic yet disillusioned, hopeful yet frustrated.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Optimistic
  • Frustrated
  • Disillusioned

• The first real thing I heard was Three O'Clock Blues by B.B. King. That's where it all began for me.

  

  Robin Trower Procol Harum
  • First
  • Heard
  • Began

• People would ask me, 'Is he as funny at home as he is in the movies?' ... I would have to answer, 'Well, he can be funny. But he is also very serious. He has insomnia and if we him up early, he would bawl the hell out of me'.

  

  Arthur Marx
  • Funny
  • Movies

• Zen, like life, defies exact definition, but its essence is the experience, moment by moment, of our own existence -- a natural, spontaneous encounter, unclouded by the suppositions and expectations that come between us and reality. It is, if you like, a paring down of life until we see it as it really is, free from our illusions; it is merely a divestment of ourselves until we recognize our own true nature.

  

  David Fontana
  • Reality
  • Moments
  • Expectations

• I wish there were more good new bands that would light a fire and offer a little friendly competition that would be welcomed.

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Fire
  • Bands
  • Welcomed

• I can understand why those bands do it. It can be a hell of a lot of bloody fun. People are allowed to have a bit of fun after the age of 40, and a lot of them do need the money.

  

  Nik Kershaw
  • Money
  • Fun
  • Bands

• And rock being a male-dominated, testosterone-driven place that I've been in the eye of the hurricane now for several years, I realized that it can be a place that can perpetuate homophobic behavior unless it's addressed by bands like us.

  

  Tim McIlrath Rise Against
  • Bands
  • Hurricane
  • Testosterone