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Archiving is extremely expensive and time consuming. I'm sure an archivist would tell me I'm doing it wrong. It's an industry that's built upon essential ideas, and some of those practices are abusive.

Ian MacKaye

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Ian MacKaye
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: April 16
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I never imagine myself as anything. I've never had a goal or any future vision at all. I just do what's in front of me.
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It's so interesting that humanity has to be defined by emotional strife or something. I don't buy into that.
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