Stephen Malkmus Quotes
Basically, no one else gives me any opinions on lyrics. I don't ask for them. If they did, I would listen.
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I have nothing to do with opinions. I deal only with armed rebellion and its aiders and abettors.
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Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.
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Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.
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Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.
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If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don't want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.
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Know or listen to those who know.
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I don't own a radio. I listen to everything through apps or on my iPhone. And then I download the shows I like. Shows like 'Fresh Air', 'Radiolab', 'Snap Judgement', all those shows.
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I definitely have my opinions that I'm very vocal about and I'm not afraid to put them out there.
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An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.
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Listen, a lot of religions have fundamentalists.
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My parents were quite strict; we couldn't just listen to whatever music we wanted. It was very much like they monitored what we listened to.
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I was having a lot of people ask me to update 'The Shock Doctrine' and add a chapter about Trump.
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I love the fact that little kids think I'm a witch. A mum might come over and say 'I'm sorry to disturb you, but my daughter thinks you're in 'Harry Potter.' I'll say 'That's cool' and take the kid aside and say, 'I'm a witch. If you don't listen to your mum, I'm going to haunt you!' It's brilliant. I can scare kids into doing their homework.
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I used to have so many opinions before I learned the facts.
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Crystallographers believed in X-ray results, which are of course very accurate. But the x-rays are limited, and electron microscopy filled the gap, and so the discovery of quasicrystals could have been discovered only by electron microscopy, and the community of crystallographers, for several years, was not willing to listen.
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When you listen intensely to anything, you see how it can be improved.
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I think whatever dress you wear, people will criticise you. Different people have different opinions.
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I told everyone who was ready to listen that I had material with pentagonal symmetry. People just laughed at me.
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I listen to Radio 4 and put the iPod on shuffle. I like the randomness of, say, the Stones, then something from Nina Simone, Nick Drake or Bob Dylan.
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I always dreamed about getting on TV and being part of a team - a funny ensemble.
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Many times I am asked why the suffering of animals should call forth more sympathy from me than the suffering of human beings; why I work in this direction of charitable work more than toward any other. My answer is that because I believe that this work includes all the education and lines of reform which are needed to make a perfect circle of peace and goodwill about the Earth.
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My side ain't chosen. My side was given.
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Basically, no one else gives me any opinions on lyrics. I don't ask for them. If they did, I would listen.
