"I used to race at the YMCA in Crystal Lake, Illinois, they used to have a dirt track there, and there was also a track near Rockford, Illinois, that I would go to."

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Source : "Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio and Blink-182 on staying young through BMX". Interview with David Anthony, music.avclub.com. May 27, 2015.

Matt Skiba

#Race Quotes #Ymca Quotes #Lakes Quotes

“The more conflict and contrast you have with a character makes it more interesting.”

Source : "Exclusive On-Set Interview With Chris Hemsworth!". Interview with Lauren Brown, www.seventeen.com. February 9, 2012.
“If you want to produce really horrible, obnoxious kids, say yes to them all the time.”
“One's own surroundings means so much to one, when one is feeling miserable.”
“To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.”
“The ego, as a collection of our past experiences, is continually offering miserable lines of thought. It's as if there were a stream with little fish swimming by, and when we hook one of them there is a judgment. The ego is constantly judging everybody and everything. It has its constant little chit chat about things that can happen in the future, things about the past, too, and these are the little fish that swim by. And what we learn to do-this is why it takes work-is to not reach out and grab a fish.”
“Life goes on forever like the gnawing of a mouse.”
“Imagination is a good horse to carry you over the ground - not a flying carpet to set you free from probability.”
“"As I think I told you once before," said I, "it is you who have been, in your greed and cunning, against all the world. It may be profitable to you to reflect, in future, that there never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death."”

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