Stephen Malkmus Quotes
George Oppen wasn't a larger than life personality, but I'm not either. And he lived a long time, so he was happy. Going down in flames is fine, too.
Quotes to Explore
-
We will always make music, but Die Antwoord is... finite.
-
You cannot do only one thing.
-
I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
-
I love women more than anything.
-
Women are not all single-issue voters.
-
Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
-
Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
-
Singing is my passion and something that I still love to do and I'm always going to want to do it.
-
The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.
-
It's time to re-think charity. It's time to give charity the big-league freedoms we really give to business. The fight for these freedoms must be our new cause, because without them, all of our causes are ultimately lost.
-
The money was going to come and go, between a wife and the IRS. The thrill of beating the best field in golf is what will always stay with me.
-
Valuation depends on several factors. From an investor angle, they look at leadership position, management, and what the company's offerings are. I think these three things got 5/5 for a company like Flipkart, and that is what is driving valuations and growth.
-
I was much more interested by clothes when I was younger. I'm about being discreet. What they call the French touch, whatever that means. Low profile and somehow elegant without being flashy.
-
I am far more a fan of aggressive entrepreneurs than I am of major CEOs. You look at major CEOs, and they are almost to a person quite timid. They don't act to defend the free market principles that are vital to growth.
-
If there's a 13- or 14-year old kid who is yearning for something beyond the social forces in his own world, in his own neighborhood, the library is the only place where he can go to find that. It was exciting and thrilling to me all the time I worked in the library. It's such a force for social good and it can do so much.
-
I was tall and skinny, and at 15, I was approached to model. I figured that models got to travel, and it became my ticket to travel so much so that if an agency could not fly me to another country, I would fly on my cost so that I could see that country and also make some money.
-
Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.
-
The U.N. Security Council ordered Iraq in April 1991 to relinquish all capabilities to make biological, chemical and nuclear weapons as well as long-range missiles.
-
You're going to play good. You're going to play bad. But as long as I stay healthy, I should be happy. Every player should feel the same way.
-
At least since the Industrial Revolution, the world of design has been dominated by the rigors of manufacturing and mass production. Assembly lines have dictated a world made of parts, framing the imagination of designers and architects who have been trained to think about their objects as assemblies of discrete parts with distinct functions.
-
How you handle life depends a lot on how you handle plan B, or if you have a plan B.
-
I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
-
George Oppen wasn't a larger than life personality, but I'm not either. And he lived a long time, so he was happy. Going down in flames is fine, too.
