Stephen Malkmus Quotes

I guess the majority of people who want to ban certain musicians are the ones who are so proud of everything America stands for.

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• It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.

  

  Karl Kraus
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  • Better
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• Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Help
  • Free
  • Education

• The one thing I do know is that I'm the best Taylor Hawkins drummer there is, and that is all I can hope to be. And when it comes to music, musicianship and skill, there is no such thing as better or worse because so much is personal opinion, and I can see that now.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Music
  • Hope
  • Best

• My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I guess a little late for her, but - and I never knew. I found out when my father, after her death, got her FBI file.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Mother
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• I had a dream cast when Dan first went off and wrote 'Ghostbusters 3' by himself. It was so long ago that my dream cast was Ben Stiller, Chris Farley, and Chris Rock. That would have been cool. Now, a lot of time has passed, and there are a lot of young funny people.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Day
  • Thoughts
  • Week

• I like to laugh and make people have fun.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Fun
  • Laugh

• If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • Women
  • American
  • Politics

• You can do more, you can always do more.

  

  Dan Marino
  • You
  • Always
  • More

• Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Religion
  • Matter

• Musical theatre is my first love.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Love
  • Theatre
  • First

• I've always found the rain very calming.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Always
  • Rain
  • Very

• Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • People
  • Work
  • Live

• Wonder Woman is a fighter, better than most, but it's what she fights for that is important. It's her vision of a future of peace and acceptance that makes her the right ambassador for everyone.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Important
  • She
  • Future

• Since I was a child, I always loved music that made me want to dance. As a teenager, I used to dance the night away to electronic music.

  

  Nadia Ali
  • Music
  • Night
  • Dance

• I don't know if a song is going to be a hit or it's going to flop. I never know. I just do the music and if people like it, they like it.

  

  T-Pain
  • People
  • Music
  • Song

• I voted yes for ANWR, and I would support those in other places, environmentally sound.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Support
  • Sound
  • Places

• Once, there was a time in Jerusalem of brotherhood and peace: cultures and languages lived side by side and not one at the expense of the other.

  

  Yitzhak Navon
  • Time
  • Peace
  • Brotherhood

• Far and few, far and few,Are the lands where the Jumblies live;Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,And they went to sea in a Sieve.

  

  Edward Lear
  • Live
  • Sea
  • Green

• I am not sure the issue of race in America will ever be completely solved.

  Colson Whitehead
  • America

• It really doesn't take brains to be a politician as much as it takes stomach. Both would be nice, but in America we have accepted diminishing returns in this arena.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • America
  • Nice
  • Politician

• I started dating JD Samson from Le Tigre, and suddenly I was listening to more up-tempo music and old dance music, like ESG and Gang of Four, and I thought, 'Wow. This is fun.'

  

  Sia LSD
  • Up
  • Music
  • Fun

• Slavery is something that is all too often swept under the carpet. The shame doesn't even belong to us, but we still experience it because we're a part of the African race. If it happened to one, it happened to all. We carry that burden.

  

  Lupita Nyong'o
  • Experience
  • Slavery

• I guess the majority of people who want to ban certain musicians are the ones who are so proud of everything America stands for.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • America
  • Proud
  • Musicians