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The amount of money that people spend on saving stuff, they try to feed you this idea that it's more important.

Ian MacKaye

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Ian MacKaye
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: April 16
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At every election, my vote goes to the candidate less likely to declare war. You're dropping hugely expensive pieces of exploding metal on a population. America deserves the president it gets, whether the country votes for them or allows their vote to be stolen, and the least we can do is to elect someone who won't do that to other people.
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There's also a lot of skateboard stuff, because I was a skateboarder. Somewhere around here I have one of my original boards.
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Music is a language and different people who come along are each using that language to do something different, but all coming at it in a similar vein inasmuch as it's always community based and for the most part nonprofit. Most bands don't ever come within a mile of profit - clearly these people are not playing music to make money.
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I don't need any more avenues of communication, and frankly I think people are still working out to realize that it's just a tool[social media] rather than something that you have to do or participate in.
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We play loud electric guitar music, and we'd hope that that doesn't mean you have to act like an asshole.
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It makes me sad, the way human beings talk smack. It's why I don't like irony. People are too gleeful to put some teeth into something.
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The archiving industry, much like the funeral industry and the wedding industry, these industries can be very exploitative.
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Part of the way the work world works is not so much creating a separation between your work and your free time, but creating the illusion of a separation between your work and your free time. Every day is the weekend for me, which means I'm always busy.
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I'm a fifth generation Washingtonian and I was born and raised here. My kid's a sixth generation Washingtonian. Honestly I wish people didn't move because I love the people of the city.
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I was into Ted Nugent, I was a Nugent guy. I was a skateboarder listening to Ted Nugent.
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Let's say for instance people say, He's a really totalitarian, strict guy, he's hard to work with or whatever. I don't think it's true, but people's perception of me leads that direction, like I'm a fundamentalist person. I end up having to spend extra time saying, I'm not a fundamentalist. I have other stuff to do.
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I always appreciate when people save, and more importantly, share. As we speak, there are people in this world - mostly men - who have giant collections of recordings that no one will ever hear. And the value of that collection is almost defined by the fact that nobody else can hear it.
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We were not a band that typically would say, Hello, Whatever Town!
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For most people who have or who do identify as or with [song] Straight Edge, I feel like for most people, they're just trying to do the right thing.
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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.
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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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Structures can be manipulated for ill as well, especially when people are dealing with issues of power, or control, or violence.
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