Stephen Malkmus Quotes
What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.
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It was a horrible, terrible, atrocious, offensive football game.
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We went into this with the utmost respect for the source material, but we recognized the need for change.
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In a kidnapping, you leave behind a lot of your baggage, like arrogance and stubbornness.
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It's nice to look good, but the most important thing is to be you.
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As our economy advances, our government and our laws need to modernize, too.
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The many sounds of Memphis shaped my early musical career and continue to be an inspiration to this day.
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Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.
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True zeal is connected with a holy life. It is remarkable how often the greatest zealots for God, the Church, and sound doctrine (as they regard it), have been unholy and even immoral in their lives.
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It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant.
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Never judge a journey by the distance.
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What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much.
