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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I'm more of a 5 Live man. But I might listen to a bit of Coldplay or The Smiths.
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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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I don't even listen to music when I'm off tour.
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When you listen intensely to anything, you see how it can be improved.
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I try to listen to stuff that makes me happy for other reasons, rather than being musically inspiring.
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The one we keep pitching and there are no takers is The Fabulous Baker Boys Go To Hawaii. There don't seem to be any takers on that one!
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We like them big ... but we'll settle for players with three kinds of bones - a funnybone, a wishbone and a backbone. The funnybone is to enjoy a laugh, even at one's own expense. The wishbone is to think by, set one's goals high and have dreams and ambitions. And the backbone - well, that's what a player needs to get up and go to work and make those dreams come true.
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Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.
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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.
