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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The goal wasn't to create a billion-dollar company. The goal was to create something useful where I could learn things.
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Our goal is to solve a problem for the retailer, not to solve a problem for my ego - which is big.
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Certain Socialist writers are fond of describing the Social-Democratic State of the future as implying the "emancipation of the proletarian and the woman." As regards the latter point, however, if emancipation is taken to include domination, we have not to wait so long. The highest development of modern capitalism, as exemplified in the English-speaking countries, has placed man to all intents and purposes, legally under the heel of woman. So far as the relations of the sexes are concerned, it would be the task of Socialism to emancipate man from this position, if sex-equality be the goal aimed at. The first step on the road towards such equality would necessarily consist in the abolition of modern female privilege.
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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.
