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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Bob Marley
  • Up

• In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.

  

  Don McLean
  • American
  • Song

• Remember this about the Korean War: The men were drafted; the women volunteered.

  

  Loretta Swit
  • Men
  • Women
  • Remember

• Half my fan mail comes from Japan.

  

  Ben Barnes

• For 'Breaking Bad,' it was like, that's one of the best pilots, probably the best pilot I have ever read.

  

  Betsy Brandt
  • Bad

• If you get satisfaction out of playing music and entertaining people and it makes you feel right, then go for it.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • People
  • Music

• We are very committed to highlighting women succeeding in entrepreneurship or technology.

  

  Caroline Ghosn
  • Women
  • Technology

• I felt like I haven't had the typical experience of a novelist whose book becomes a movie.

  

  Kaui Hart Hemmings
  • Experience
  • Book
  • Movie

• I guess when you write a personal story, people feel compelled to share their own stories.

  

  Darin Strauss
  • People

• I like the way my heart beats, I like the way I think; I don't need or want anything to change that.

  

  Jordin Sparks
  • Heart

• If you can see, hear, feel, and think, you should know that King Dollar rules the United States, and that the workers are robbed and exploited in this country to the heart's content of the masters.If you are not deaf, dumb, and blind, then you know that the American bourgeois democracy and capitalistic civilization are the worst enemies of labor and progress, and that instead of protecting them, you should help to fight to destroy them.

  

  Alexander Berkman
  • Country
  • Heart
  • American

• The improvement of the mind improves the heart and corrects the understanding.

  

  Agathon
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Improvement

• 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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