Stephen Malkmus Quotes
What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much.
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I think every fight is different based on who is fighting.
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Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
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Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
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My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.
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What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.
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Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not.
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I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
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You aren't going to leave me alone are you?
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I drink tons of water. When you're puffy, you think you can't drink water since you feel more bloated and gross but that's what you do to get the toxins out of your system. I put a little lemon in the water bottle that I carry around with me or drink a cup of hot water with lemon. It's a natural diuretic.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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There is such a polarized discussion of economics among people like analysts, columnists, bloggers; often, they end up just saying that views other than their own should not even be discussed. I find that frustrating. There is no intellectual progress without considering lots and lots of different views.
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See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.
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Americans mostly now believe the climate is changing. They believe that humans are causing it, and they believe that it is a risk. But in surveys, Americans are not willing to pay higher energy prices to tackle the problem.
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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
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It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person. Then I meet other writers and realize that they're not.
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Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.
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I want to win championships.
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It was a horrible, terrible, atrocious, offensive football game.
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The life of faith is a daily exploration of the constant and countless ways in which Gods grace and love are expereinced.
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Most of the time, with voice-overs, you're recording before they've got the graphics, and you also don't get a whole script. I get my lines, as I show up that day. You don't know what the rest of the story is, so you really rely on the people in the room that you're working with, so they can fill you in on what's going on, right around your particular lines.
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Most screen violence is tedious.
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What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much.
