Stephen Malkmus Quotes
There's no reason to stop. Who knows what's around the bend? To participate, meet new people. It's mostly other musicians and people like you, or anybody I meet who's in this, that keeps me going.
Quotes to Explore
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A lion is called a 'king of beasts' obviously for a reason.
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We need to accept that consumption is not the end goal of our life and stop measuring our well-being simply on the basis of earnings. We need to explicitly take the quality of our work-related life into account in judging our well-being.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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I think all this Facebook stuff should just stop!
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It's time to stop obsessing about overhead and start focusing on progress. Change charity, and charity can change the world.
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It usually takes me 20 to 90 minutes to write a song because once I start, I don't stop. If I start writing a song, and you try to have a conversation with me, you're a bad person.
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For the price of a couple of Happy Meals, you can buy a digital textbook and stop your child from having to carry around a six-pound book.
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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.
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The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.
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I desperately need the love of complete strangers. That's one reason I overtip. I love when skycaps, waiters, and valets are happy to see me.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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I actually feel like the phrase 'big in Japan' is not appropriate for me. The reason is that there are more people who sympathize with my practice in America than there are domestically in Japan.
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The reason we love our parents is because they loved us first. Every single company should take this advice.
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A girl in a bikini is like having a loaded pistol on your coffee table - There's nothing wrong with them, but it's hard to stop thinking about it.
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A true athlete is someone who doesn't just stop training when they stop competing. It's a way of life, and they keep in shape just to keep up that standard.
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So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.
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The transition was difficult. It's hard to stop something that you've enjoyed and that has been very rewarding.
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I realized I was the one doing all the training, earning the money, and my parents were living off of me.
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We must realize that it is best to focus on our oneness, to re emphasize what is the same about each of us rather than dwell on what is different.
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Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention.
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There's no reason to stop. Who knows what's around the bend? To participate, meet new people. It's mostly other musicians and people like you, or anybody I meet who's in this, that keeps me going.
