Stephen Malkmus Quotes
Despite my own doubts of being marketable or crushworthy, my goal was to write a record of peppy pop songs, hopefully without annoying anybody.
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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
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When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.
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My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.
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Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.
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In the early 2009, a campaign plan developed by Petraeus and General McChrystal to defeat the Taliban, they required a minimum force of 40,000. President Obama rejected that recommendation and provided 25 percent less. He also decided he would pull the force out in 12 to 15 months.
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There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood.
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The fun little proofs that you can do with algebra - they are sort of like crowd pleasers in a way. Like, the .9 repeating equaling one. It doesn't take a lot of algebra to prove that, and it's really fun. It kind of wows people. It's like they're watching magic happen right before their eyes.
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I have to admit I can be pretty high strung and tightly wound.
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I've always, in some way, incorporated sampling into my work.
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When I finally decided to do the show, I only had two weeks to learn the choreography and the songs in French.
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When I realized I wanted to do more writing and less traveling around the world teaching live seminars, I decided to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul(R)' book. I knew I wanted to have 100 stories in the book, so I wrote or edited two stories a week for a year.
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I want to direct one day. I want to write my own thing and really be behind the scenes because you have more creative control.
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You can't be happy if you're not tolerably happy with yourself. The addition of friends adds immeasurably to life.
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I don't like rooms you never use or that are wasted space but I also like a sparseness and a cleanness.
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I just try to direct in a way that interests me. And, hopefully, other people will find it compelling.
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Christian Science has always appealed to the middle-classes and the upper middle classes. In part, this is because it requires a certain amount of education to study 'Science and Health' to the degree that Christian scientists do. It's not an easy book to read! It's 700 pages, and it's written in a nineteenth-century manner and diction.
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I made a promise to myself to be kinder to other people.
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The useful may be trusted to further itself, for many produce it and no one can do without it; but the beautiful must be specially encouraged, for few can present it, while yet all have need of it.
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The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology.
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When you go hard your nays become yays. Yankee stadium with Jays and Kanyes.
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What has happened at Guantanamo Bay... does not represent the will of the American people. I'm embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people.
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Despite my own doubts of being marketable or crushworthy, my goal was to write a record of peppy pop songs, hopefully without annoying anybody.
