Stephen Malkmus Quotes
But, then again, I wouldn't call myself an indie-rock supporter even if there are some really good bands out there and there will always be some real good new bands.
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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Around my house, I won't even speak to my family unless they first address me by my official Berzerker name, Godred Crovan, Victor of Sky-Hill and Ruler of Man and the Isles. And now that I think of it, that's probably why nobody speaks to me unless it's time to feed the dogs or take out the garbage.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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I would like every Jew to be as comfortable in his skin as I am in mine.
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All I ever wanted to do is make music.
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No citizen is a second class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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I woke up on the plane this morning and was turning on my phone and I had to put my pin number in. That's when I realized that since the age of 10 I've been using 2012 as my pin number. But now that I've won gold in the 2012 Olympics, I've achieved that goal and, for the first time in 14 years, I'll have to change my pin.
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I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.
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How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.
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My legs are really long and that's cool apparently, but I'm totally klutzy. I mean, I'm like Bambi. I fall all over myself because I can't control my arms and my really long legs.
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I love running and I will always run.
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If you hunger for certain types of clothes, for which you have little use, put yourself on a diet. Just as you resist too much whipped cream and French pastry to keep your figure in shape, you can say no to those yearned-for but unneeded purchases that lead to a wardrobe that is shapeless and without form.
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Isn't that the great thing about Christmas? You get a lot of respite, time to recharge your batteries, time with family without too much else happening anywhere else in the world, time to focus on the people you love and the activities that you enjoy, time to exercise, to read.
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Romantic Orientalism was fascinated by the color and excitement of a powerful culture, and nearly always approached its subject with love.
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I think the media loves taking the most absurd clips for a sport that has become congressional politics.
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For me, the amazing thing was entering into this amazing world of 'Sesame Street.' We'd be in the kids' room, and there was a door into the soundstage that said '1-2-3 Open Sesame.' I remember pushing that door open and going into this incredible magical world of make-believe. In one episode, I was playing football with Joe Namath.
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There's an axiom I live by: 'There is no art without politics.' You either choose to engage it, or you choose political apathy. This ties in with ideas around real-time performance and feedback.
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We slept almost all the way through the third quarter. We're just not able to play a full game.
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But, then again, I wouldn't call myself an indie-rock supporter even if there are some really good bands out there and there will always be some real good new bands.
