Stephen Malkmus Quotes

If someone's really busy listening to other CDs, and worried about what's new and what's truly relevant for discourse now, maybe it isn't that interesting. To me it is, because I'm tuned into that and that's what I like, so it's interesting to me. It's all I can do.

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• You don't just throw the ball - you propel it.

  

  Warren Spahn
  • You
  • Just
  • Throw

• If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Good
  • Song
  • Take

• Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Children
  • Nature
  • Education

• My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Wife
  • Weather
  • Cultures

• I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Food
  • Know
  • Restaurant

• I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • God
  • Religion
  • Greek

• Although I come from a family who are Muslim - my mother is Egyptian, my father is Palestinian - my mother only puts a veil on her head when she has a bad hair day.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • Family
  • She
  • Bad

• You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Fun
  • Journey
  • Enjoy

• My stepdad is a Patriots fan, so I've become a Pats fan, too.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Fan
  • Become
  • Patriots

• I became the Dalai Lama not on a volunteer basis.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Volunteer
  • Became
  • Dalai

• What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • People
  • American
  • Thanks

• I think the struggle, whenever you make a film or television movie based on a real person's life, is finding a dramatic arc that will hold an audience's attention.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Life
  • Real
  • Movie

• I like to write about painting because I think visually. I see my writing as blocks of color before it forms itself. I think I also care about painting because I'm not musical. Painting to me is not a metaphor for writing, but something people do that can never be reduced to words.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • People
  • Writing
  • Words

• They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.

  

  Sallust
  • Honesty
  • Envy
  • Distinction

• I think it's time that we all be there for the children, to learn from the ones who came before us, and to teach our sons and daughters to have respect for themselves.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Time
  • Children
  • Respect

• I have done work that has appealed my heart, and 'Total Siyappa' is something I really liked.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Work
  • Heart
  • Done

• To admit error and cut losses is rare among individuals, unknown among states.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Unknown

• Oooh, oh, how many eyesHave seen their dream?Oh, how many armsHave felt their dream?How many hearts, baby...Have felt their world stand still?

  

  Marvin Gaye
  • World
  • Dream
  • Baby

• For me, it's always easy and great to be connected to St. Jude.

  

  Kevin Love
  • Great

• In my state, the Republican Party was the most progressive party.

  

  Edward Brooke
  • Party

• Genetic Denim gods, if you're listening, please don't rip, and if you have to, maybe you could have an elf from your warehouse send me another pair... I'm a size 28 and its called 'The Twig' in a dark grayish wash... I will wear them until I die, unless those rips beat me to it.

  

  Dawn Olivieri
  • Die
  • Dark
  • Listening

• In Hollywood, people tend to have the same sensibilities, the same taste and values, and I didn't want to spend my life that way. I wanted to have a bigger, more interesting life.

  

  Brian Grazer
  • People
  • Life
  • Interesting

• One rose says more than the dozen.

  

  Wendy Craig
  • More
  • Rose
  • Than

• If someone's really busy listening to other CDs, and worried about what's new and what's truly relevant for discourse now, maybe it isn't that interesting. To me it is, because I'm tuned into that and that's what I like, so it's interesting to me. It's all I can do.

  

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