Stephen Malkmus Quotes

The word "down," is very musical. It just always comes.

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• Oh wow, you know what's wrong with all these families on TV? All these kids say stuff no kid would say. Stuff grown-ups want them to say. Man, I'd make a really realistic family. Where kids get spankings. On TV parents say, 'Oh, you shouldn't do that ever again. Now you can have ice cream.' Forget it.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Parents

• I've been hyper-conscious about staying away from rubbish. I don't eat white bread, white rice or cereal unless it's porridge.

  

  Fleur East
  • White
  • Bread
  • Rubbish

• I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Think
  • Me
  • Idle

• It's important for women to work. They need to keep their independence, to keep earning and being challenged.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Work
  • Important
  • Women

• Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Morality

• Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Hope
  • Conviction
  • Turn

• The key, of course, is to stay away from the losing years.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Years
  • Losing
  • Key

• I put Tabasco sauce over everything. Or I put it on pretty much anything that wouldn't taste gross - I mean, I wouldn't put it on salad, but I like it on fried chicken, nachos... a lot of stuff.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Pretty
  • Everything
  • Taste

• I love to be in the position of not knowing what I'm gonna do, but having rehearsed all of those so when something happens with the others actors I go with whatever that is I'm getting.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Actors
  • Knowing
  • Position

• I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • American
  • Football
  • Baseball

• In Washington, if you're a congressman or a senator or the President, you make much more money than the average American, but you'd think that if you were the leader of the free world you'd be making major bank, and you don't.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • World
  • Money
  • American

• I will keep my word. My father fled Cuba, and I will fight to defend liberty because my family knows what it's like to lose it.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Family
  • Father
  • Fight

• Women had a rights movement where they fought for changes. Men... don't band together in quite that way. It happens not in such a public-cascade way as in a house-to-house way.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Together

• When I'm directing, I noticed I'm not using my subconscious at all. I'm literally using the whole front part of my brain all the time. When you walk on the set, every moment you have to be there because something's going on that requires attention.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Time
  • Attention
  • Brain

• Things said by political parties are different from the decisions of the government which are taken to uphold the rule of law. The government takes decisions that are best for the country.

  

  Oscar Fernandes
  • Different
  • Country
  • Political

• There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Way
  • Prosperity

• I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.

  

  Tana French
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Day

• In my career quite a few people have tried to force me out, but so far no one has succeeded.

  

  Ferdinand Piech
  • People
  • Career
  • Me

• It does not matter the circumstances, trials, or challenges that might surround us; an understanding of the doctrine of Christ and His Atonement will be the source of our strength and peace-yes, brothers and sisters, that internal tranquility that is born of the Spirit and which the Lord gives to His faithful Saints.

  

  Benjamin de Hoyos
  • Spirit
  • Challenges
  • Christ

• The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Cat
  • Down
  • Clever

• To restore man, who had been laid low by sin, to the heights of divine glory, the Word of the eternal Father, though containing all things within His immensity, willed to become small. This He did not by putting aside His greatness but by taking to Himself our littleness.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Word
  • Sin
  • Glory

• I believe God wrote the Word in your essence. That's the genius of my Father. You are born knowing right from wrong. You don't need a book to tell you that!

  

  Eddie Griffin
  • God
  • Book
  • Genius

• One theory says that if you treat people well, you're more likely to encourage them to do what you want, making all the effort pay off. Do this, get that. Another one, which I prefer, is that you might consider treating people with kindness merely because you can. Regardless of what they choose to do in response, this is what you choose to do. Because you can.

  

  Seth Godin
  • People
  • Effort
  • Kindness

• The word "down," is very musical. It just always comes.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Word
  • Down
  • Musical