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I don't watch TV but occasionally I'll read the Washington Post. I will say that sports are the only real thing on television.

Ian MacKaye

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Ian MacKaye
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: April 16
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If people want new music then they are going to have to figure out a way to be patrons of the arts. And they will.
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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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I have other projects to do. I try not to let that documentation interfere with my present day.
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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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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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The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
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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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Trenchmouth, really great band. Here's a photo of them in 1979 playing the Valley Green projects. It was an incredible, unusual experience. We ran a cord through the window and plugged the PA and amps into that and played right in the courtyard. It was an incredible experience. It was just local kids.
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What does bother me is that I have to spend time and energy dealing with the ramifications of what people do think about me.
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My humor is very dry. To me it doesn't make sense.
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I have thousands of tapes, and photos and fliers, letters, posters, artwork - basically everything that ever happened, I kept. I'm not a hoarder, though. I'm sort of a librarian.
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I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples.
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Why do we celebrate the opening of a bar so much?
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I think it's my nature to engage in things that are more difficult.
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When people who are songwriters say 'That's my property and if you give it away for free then I'll lose my incentive,' then, well, good riddance.
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First of all, [St. Stephen's] is a radical church. It was one of the first DC churches to have gay ceremonies. A woman said mass there, which almost got a priest excommunicated there Black Panthers spoke at the church it was a sanctuary for civil rights protesters and anti-war protesters.
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Now anyone can move anywhere. I've made deep connections with people around the world since I tour everywhere that I will simply never see again.
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