Stephen Malkmus Quotes
Family is the best. I can honestly say, it's a gift that is beyond making art. I didn't know that when I got into it.
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Islam means peace.
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Architects create spaces that accommodate human activity. As opposed to many of its contemporary counterparts, Dune'is not so much focused on the styling of that activity, as on the supporting of it.
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The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.
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The only way reliably to gauge the heat of any particular chilli is to cut it in half, so exposing the core and membranes, and to dab the cut surface on your tongue.
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I remember 'Hannah Montana' came out, and I was so depressed, I started crying because I was like, 'I want to do that.'
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A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
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I remember clearly, when I was about 4, my Aunt Linda said, 'I'm not babysitting him no more. He's bad.' It was one of the first conscious shifts I remember making. I decided, 'I'm going to be good now.'
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Every woman must own her story; otherwise we are all part of the silence.
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I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.
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Well, a younger woman is a type, but not necessarily a type for me. And what is a younger woman? I mean, I'm pretty old. Almost everyone is younger.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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When you're trying to accomplish lofty goals, and when you're attacking something of great magnitude, you have to have help.
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The best work I can do is to take myself as much as I can out of it and get it as simple as I can.
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Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.
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Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin.
Garry Kasparov -
I probably enjoy campaigning more than most other people in public office because I like people and I enjoy going out there and telling people what I've done.
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I write a lot in my head. The revision goes on internally. It's not spontaneous and it doesn't have a schedule.
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Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted a fool, than to be thought rude or wanton.
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My greatest success story has been my family.
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Why is Mr Universe always from Earth?
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Family is the best. I can honestly say, it's a gift that is beyond making art. I didn't know that when I got into it.
