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

• If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Voting

• 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

• Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction.

  

  Alvar Aalto
  • Architecture
  • Materials
  • Immature

• The thing I have to do as a writer, and that God permits me to do, is that I have to be willing to fail.

  

  Mary Karr
  • God

• The whole upbringing was interesting because we grew up Orthodox Jews all the way until we were teenagers.

  

  Benny Fine
  • Up
  • Interesting

• Most poor people earn more than minimum wage when they are working; their problem is not low wages. The problem comes when they are not working.

  

  Joseph Stiglitz
  • Working
  • Wage
  • Poor People

• 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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