Stephen Malkmus Quotes
You know, the songs that are self-conscious or jerky, they are that way, but the other ones aren't, so that's a good thing. Some of the songs are Beck-jokey, but the others, they have heart in them.
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Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints.
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Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of patronage where the ruler or the feudal master determined all.
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A president who aspires to be recognized as a global leader should not personally stake out a foreign-policy goal, commit himself eloquently to its attainment, and then yield the ground when confronted by firm opposition.
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I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, there's no way you can prove anything!
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I believe that life-saving, essential drugs should be freely available and the innovator should be paid a suitable royalty payment for his invention.
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I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
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A priest encounters temptation every day, and some of that desire is very natural.
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An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair,And fell adown his shoulders with loose care.
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'Like I told you, I'm not a magician,' he says. 'If something isn't working, I don't try to guess.'
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Perhaps it is the positive knowledge that humans now possess the means to destroy their whole planet, the fear that they have in this way themselves become the gods, dreadfully charged with their own continued existence, that has made comic-book and movie myth escapist.
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The MEChA slogan is 'Por la Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada,' which translates, 'For the race, everything. Outside of the race, nothing.' The MEChA slogan seems a conscious echo of the Fascist slogan of Mussolini: 'Everything for the state, nothing outside the state, nothing above the state.'
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God looketh upon any thing we say, or any thing we do, and if He seeth Christ in it, He accepteth it; but if there be no Christ, He putteth it away as a foul thing.
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And what its worth, ask death-beds; they can tell.
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Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights! Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight!
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In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.
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Remember this about the Korean War: The men were drafted; the women volunteered.
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Half my fan mail comes from Japan.
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For 'Breaking Bad,' it was like, that's one of the best pilots, probably the best pilot I have ever read.
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If you get satisfaction out of playing music and entertaining people and it makes you feel right, then go for it.
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The rhema is regarded as a more immediate word from God which we do not find in the 66 books of the Bible.
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I learn my songs by ear.
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By the time I went to college, I knew the major passages of the Bible pretty much by heart.
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The truly brave are soft of heart and eyes, and feel for what their duty bids them do.
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You know, the songs that are self-conscious or jerky, they are that way, but the other ones aren't, so that's a good thing. Some of the songs are Beck-jokey, but the others, they have heart in them.
