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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Acting was never something I wanted to do for the rest of my life, so it was easy to walk away.
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No one likes crying, but tears water our souls.
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I'm a very girlie girl, but I often find the heroes of my books trying to take over the story. In truth, I enjoy writing the male point of view more than any other.
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Beloved Pan and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and the inward man be one.
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The closest thing to hell on earth is prison. It's the worst experience I've ever had in my life. Besides death.
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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.
