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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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
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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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In all things, therefore, where we have clear evidence from our ideas, and those principles of knowledge I have above mentioned, reason is the proper judge; and revelation, though it may, in consenting with it, confirm its dictates, yet cannot in such cases invalidate its decrees: nor can we be obliged, where we have the clear and evident sentience of reason, to quit it for the contrary opinion, under a pretence that it is matter of faith: which can have no authority against the plain and clear dictates of reason.
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Do not imagine that an integral being has the ambition of enlightening the unaware or raising worldly people to the divine realm. To her, there is no self and other, and hence no one to be raised; no heaven and hell, and hence no destination.
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Some of the parables that Matthew records and that Jesus delivered as part of his Olivet Discourse-such as the ten virgins and their lamps or the servants and the talents they were given-are some of the best known of Jesus' teachings. Reading them in the context of his prophecies about the end of the world, however, makes them clearly parables of preparation. To be on his right hand with his "sheep" rather than at his left hand with the "goats" at his return, we must prepare ourselves now.
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No matter where I am, especially when I'm on tour around the country, Caesar salad is my standby. In a random city and eating in random to-go restaurants, you're kind of scared about trying things, but you can always count on a Caesar salad.
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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.
