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.

  

  J. Lee Thompson
  • Political
  • Best
  • Movies

• 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.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Time
  • Music
  • Born

• As football gets more globalised, it's probably more important than ever to have one or two players in your team who have grown up in the same streets or been to the same schools as the hard-core fans.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Up
  • Important
  • Team

• 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.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Goal
  • Leader
  • Yield

• There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, there's no way you can prove anything!

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Way
  • Prove
  • Nobody

• I believe that life-saving, essential drugs should be freely available and the innovator should be paid a suitable royalty payment for his invention.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Life
  • Believe
  • I Believe

• 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.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • You
  • Enough
  • Look

• A priest encounters temptation every day, and some of that desire is very natural.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Desire
  • Day
  • Everyday

• For me, the most important thing is running a good clubhouse. The X's and the O's – you sit up in the stands and, for the most part, a lot of fans go to the game and they know what's going to happen. You're going to hit and run, steal, put a pitcher in, take a pitcher out.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • Good
  • Important
  • Game

• Acting is an uncomfortable business because you have to make yourself vulnerable.

  

  Beau Garrett
  • Business
  • Acting
  • Yourself

• An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair,And fell adown his shoulders with loose care.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Hair

• 'Like I told you, I'm not a magician,' he says. 'If something isn't working, I don't try to guess.'

  

  Uri Geller

• 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.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Book
  • Movie
  • Fear

• 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.'

  

  Pat Buchanan

• 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.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • God

• And what its worth, ask death-beds; they can tell.

  

  Edward Young
  • Death

• Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights! Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight!

  

  Bob Marley
  • Up

• I do some solo, acoustic stuff, but I also like plugging in my electric guitar and playing loud with a band.

  

  James Bay
  • Band

• In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion; in order to serve others better, one has to hold them at a distance for a time. But where can one find the solitude necessary to vigor, the deep breath in which the mind collects itself and courage gauges its strength? There remain big cities.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Mind
  • Courage
  • Breath

• Don't open that door," she said. "The hallway is full of difficult dreams." And I asked her: "How do you know?" And she told me: "Because I was there a moment ago and I had to come back when I discovered I was sleeping on my heart.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Heart
  • She
  • Door

• I have not made any suggestions about climate change. This is more about blending or shifting the conversation about the environment versus the economy. It's just such an old, outdated conversation.

  

  Jennifer Granholm
  • Environment

• I never, never photograph someone getting high to sell clothes. I was called, at some point, the person responsible for "heroin chic". I didn't have anything to do with "heroin chic".

  

  Nan Goldin
  • High
  • Clothes
  • Heroin

• 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.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Heart
  • Songs
  • Self-Conscious