Stephen Malkmus Quotes
There's something in life that's cool, it's relatively cheap, and fun, and populist. Even when it's elitist.
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I feel like if I live the Christian life, then the people should be able to see it in my everyday actions.
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I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.
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Obviously, exercise is an important part of my life, and I think taking care of yourself is an important part of every individual's health care.
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My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me.
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If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.
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Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.
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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
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I've worked in television all my life, but really I've always wanted to work in the movies.
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To be a great artist, you need to know yourself as best as you possibly can. I live my life and delve into my own psyche. It's more about exploring how I feel rather than making pale imitations of something that came before. We are unique beings, and the way we look at things is our own.
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Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.
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I spent the first five years of my life in Punjab, India, and then moved to New York.
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'Big Bang' is unbelievable; I'm blessed, but it's not the only thing in my life.
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While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot have the same effect on life expectancy. A cure for cancer would be miraculous and welcome, but it would lead to only a three-year increase in life expectancy at birth.
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Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.
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My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.
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I think I was just lucky to be brought up in a very musical family. My two older brothers were, and still are, very musical and very creative, and music was a big part of my life from a very young age, so it is quite natural for me to become involved in music in the way that I did.
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Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
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When I first ran for Congress, I went to my daughter Alexandra, who was going to be a senior in high school, and said: 'I have a chance to run. I may not win, but I'd be gone three nights a week. So, if you want me to stay, I'll be happy to.' And do you know what she said to me? 'Mother, get a life!'
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I want to talk about jobs and health care and pension security and what we're going to do to stop the brain drain in Ohio and make it possible for our young people to stay here and build a life in Ohio rather than in Pennsylvania or West Virginia or God knows where.
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Our task now is to resynthesize biology; put the organism back into its environment; connect it again to its evolutionary past; and let us feel that complex flow that is organism, evolution, and environment united. The time has come for biology to enter the nonlinear world.
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We all got up to dance. Oh, but we never got the chance!
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Need nothing. Enjoy everything. Love all.
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I always get sick of these conversations where people are so obsessed with pixels, with high definition, and even with technology in general. I find it just dull and heartless. And so I wanted to use only the worst machines.
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There's something in life that's cool, it's relatively cheap, and fun, and populist. Even when it's elitist.
