Stephen Malkmus Quotes

As a frontman I'm going to wear leather pants and get blowjobs in the studio. That would be nice. They are definitely not cool, but I like them. I don't listen to them, but I like them when I hear them on the radio, normally.

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• When man possesses a good, sound body that does not overpower him nor disturb the equilibrium in him, he possesses a divine gift. In short, a good constitution facilitates the rule of the soul over the body, but it is not impossible to conquer a bad constitution by training.

  

  Maimonides
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Soul

• It is easy to see what many people, women especially, admire about Sarah Palin. Here is a mother of five who can see the bright side of having a child with Down syndrome and still find the time and energy to govern the state of Alaska.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Time
  • Women

• I've been a fanatic about working out all my life.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Working

• My childhood gave me resilience - and there's little that can surprise me in life.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Life
  • Childhood
  • Resilience

• All of the songs my grandparents and parents listened to are called boleros - they're all love songs. They're about giving your heart to a person. It's a culture that is so romantic and passionate, and that's something that I'm very proud of. We grew up with nothing, so we just want to live a life full of love.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.

  

  Cao Yu
  • Life
  • Best
  • Short

• No one needs anything; they have to want it.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Want
  • Needs
  • Anything

• When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Up
  • Great
  • Growing

• I've always really enjoyed sharing my work with others. I find it really hard if I don't think the work will exist outside of my own apartment.

  

  Ottessa Moshfegh
  • Work
  • Think
  • Sharing

• The idea of a stag hunt evokes chivalry - knights in jerkins and hose, ladies on sidesaddles with wimples and billowing dresses, a white stag symbolizing something-or-other, and Robin Hood getting in the way. An actual stag hunt is more like a horseback meeting of a county planning commission.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Planning
  • Meeting
  • Hood

• There was a series called 'Game of Thrones' which was very popular here in the United States, a post-Tolkien kind of thing. It was garbage, yet very addictive garbage - because there's lots of violence, all the women take their clothes off all the time, and it's kind of fun.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • Women
  • Fun

• I know that often times a lot of people who work in music, whether they be labels and so on or even artists, want personal recognition. We want to be recognized for something, for what we did. I'd rather my song be recognized for what it's doing and that's important. It's not so important how many people know me.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• I'm sick and tired of politics and politicians as usual.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Politics
  • Tired
  • Sick

• I would rather my films be well-known than I be well-known.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Would
  • Rather
  • Well Known

• I've been watching politics for 35 or 40 years and you just never know. You can have one person win the Iowa caucus and then the whole picture changes ten minutes later. The same thing can happen again after New Hampshire. I have no idea what's going to happen with our country in the future.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Country
  • Future
  • Picture

• One of the ways we women often handicap ourselves is thinking that once we've made a decision or a commitment, we can't change.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Change

• My mother worked in advertising and my father was a journalist. But they split up when I was three and I grew up in a single-parent family. My mum brought my brother and I up.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Up
  • Family
  • Mother

• A lot of big studio films, which are fun and great, tend to have a formula, and you've seen it before, and it's a new version of it.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Great
  • Fun
  • You

• I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.

  

  Dan Brown
  • People
  • Like
  • Learned

• Also something that you don't have to listen to from beginning to end - you can enter at any point and leave at any point.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Beginning
  • Listen
  • Leave

• I'm not at the hoarder stage, but there are two or three storage units here and there. I have things that a lot of people put a lot of heart and soul into, a lot of mental energy. I'm good at keeping those things. When it comes to pop culture, as you move through this fast lane, you wonder where it all goes and how you can hold onto it.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • People
  • Good
  • Heart

• Shooting an improv-based film is incredibly liberating, exhilarating, and fun, but editing that kind of movie can be difficult for obvious continuity reasons.

  

  Hannah Fidell
  • Fun
  • Kind
  • Reason

• Assuming that his talent can survive the increasing strain, there is one scarcely avoidable danger that lies ahead of the pupil on his road to mastery.

  

  Eugen Herrigel
  • Road
  • Danger
  • Survive

• As a frontman I'm going to wear leather pants and get blowjobs in the studio. That would be nice. They are definitely not cool, but I like them. I don't listen to them, but I like them when I hear them on the radio, normally.

  

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