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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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
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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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We're not trying to make us live forever; we're not trying to even make us live significantly longer. What we're trying to do is extend the period of healthy life.
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It is quite certain that in seeing the people who treat us so well despite their own misfortune, we are more obliged than ever to work hard for their happiness. The king seems to understand this truth; as for myself, I know that in my whole life (even if I live for a hundred years) I shall never forget the day of the coronation.
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The life of an actor lends itself to emotion, and yet you have to be tough as old boots to stay at the table.
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So the loud torrent and the whirlwind's roarBut bind him to his native mountains more.
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Ask the locals. They can point you in the direction of the area's shopping district where you'll be sure to find something different and unique that pleases you.
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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.
