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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Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
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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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I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.
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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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Let our pupil be taught that he does not belong to himself, but that he is public property. Let him be taught to love his family, but let him be taught at the same time that he must forsake and even forget them when the welfare of his country requires it.
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The 'Inside' record definitely opened up a whole new audience.
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The difference between the best worker on computer hardware and the average may be 2 to 1, if you're lucky. With automobiles, maybe 2 to 1. But in software, it's at least 25 to 1. The difference between the average programmer and a great one is at least that. The secret of my success is that we have gone to exceptional lengths to hire the best people in the world. And when you're in a field where the dynamic range is 25 to 1, boy, does it pay off.
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I'm not gonna ride home in the car. I'll wait for Randy. I think I'll get home quicker.
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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.
