Matt Skiba Quotes

#1. Death is big," Dare acknowledges. "But there are things bigger than that. If there's not, then this is all for nothing. Life is worth nothing. Putting yourself out there, and taking chances and all that. All of that stuff is bollocks if it can just disappear in the end.

Courtney Cole

#2. I feel a certain amount of freedom just cruising to the liquor store to get water or whatever. It just feels good. It makes me feel young getting on the bike and - again, not going crazy, I do bunny-hops and I'll hit some curbs and stuff - but just feeling like a kid again.

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#3. Panic is the great access of creativity because that's the only way to get rid of your mind.

Shekhar Kapur

#4. Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.

Jean Anouilh

#5. I was a bicycle messenger when Alkaline Trio was formed as a way to make ends meet and I've just always been a cyclist and then I got really into - through messengering - I got really into road bikes and fixed gears.

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#6. But Mr. Elton had only drunk wine enough to elevate his spirits, not at all to confuse his intellects.

Jane Austen

#7. Ever since I was a little girl, I've always enjoyed feeling afraid. I think it is the most delicious feeling there is

Domingos Monteiro

#8. Nine out of ten introverts agree: The telephone is the tool of the devil.

Sophia Dembling

#9. 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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#10. The bike that I've been riding is a Big Ripper. It' an SE Racing 29 bike that Famous [Stars & Straps] did a collaboration with and Travis [Barker] gave to me. So that's the bike that I cruise around on and bunny-hop on.

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#11. Skating is what got me into punk rock.

Matt Skiba

#12. I'm the kind of person who always wants more.

Hakeem Olajuwon

#13. I do what I love for a living, and I also get to build BMX bikes in my spare time.

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#14. I told myself I would never stop skating. I would never stop riding bikes or riding motorcycles. I raced dirt when I was a kid; motocross. So it definitely keeps me in tune with my youth. I'm almost 40 years old and I feel like I'm 17 years old, and I feel like that's really healthy.

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#15. The extent of my personal BMX adventures were all [on] dirt tracks. But just the aesthetic of it that early-to-mid-'80s BMX is something that's just part of me.

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#16. When I work, I try to eat as much vegetarian as possible. When I do Cupid, I eat vegetarian because I need the energy. I've got those wings on my back.

Karl Urban

#17. Even when I'm old and grey I'll probably be cruising around and bunny-hopping and stuff. In the words of the Descendents, "I don't want to grow up."

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#18. I have the '86 Haro Master that I built. It was the bike I wanted as a kid and couldn't afford, and I'm like, "I'm going to build that Haro and never ride it."

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#19. At an early age I told myself I would never quit skating, I would never quit riding BMX and being a motorcycle junkie. I just can't stop doing those things.

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#20. I was thinking about hitting races and stuff, but it's just, I think it's more of the era of when I was a kid and it just brings back memories. I gotta just chill and live in the past.

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#21. We draw our Presidents from the people. It is a wholesome thing for them to return to the people. I came from them. I wish to be one of them again.

Calvin Coolidge

#22. Falling in love with somebody is like a rush of heroin, and trying to break up with somebodyis like trying to kick heroin.

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#23. I usually just wear black so my shoes and my socks are my rays of sunshine.

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#24. I just feel like all the things that I do in my life just make me feel like a grown-up kid. That's pretty much what I am.

Matt Skiba

#25. People wrote the most beautiful things during the ugliest times.

Joshua Bell