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.

  

  Quinton Aaron
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• 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.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Life
  • Money
  • Know

• 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.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • Life
  • Important
  • Health

• Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Time
  • Short

• My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Life
  • Important
  • Parents

• If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Live
  • Culture

• Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Life
  • Time
  • Music

• Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Learning

• I've worked in television all my life, but really I've always wanted to work in the movies.

  

  E. L. James
  • Life
  • Work
  • My Life

• 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.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Life
  • Great
  • Live

• 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.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • People
  • Life
  • Business

• I spent the first five years of my life in Punjab, India, and then moved to New York.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Life
  • My Life
  • New York

• 'Big Bang' is unbelievable; I'm blessed, but it's not the only thing in my life.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Life
  • Blessed
  • My Life

• 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.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Life
  • Age
  • Cancer

• Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Life
  • Literature
  • Changes

• 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.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • Life
  • Different
  • Mother

• 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.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Life
  • Up
  • Music

• I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year in university, in law school. I think that happened when I started making a lot of friends who were in the independent music scene.

  

  Yuna
  • Life
  • Music
  • School

• Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Life
  • Business
  • Leadership

• I love dancing just because I've done it my whole life and it's definitely what I want to do. I feel like, I want to train with acting and do movies. Those two are my main priorities. I definitely want to be able to sing and model, too. I definitely love those, too.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Life
  • Love
  • Done

• A problem is something you have hopes of changing. Anything else is a fact of life.

  

  C. R. Smith
  • Life
  • Problem
  • Facts

• I think the whole point about self-control, the whole point about willpower, is to help people understand that there are endless self-nudge techniques that can be enormously helpful and are very simple.

  

  Walter Mischel
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Technique

• I don't fly by the seat of my pants. I set strategies, and then I pursue those in unrelenting fashion.

  

  Chris Meledandri
  • Fashion
  • Fly

• 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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  • Life
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