Stephen Malkmus Quotes
Usually the lyrics go from one word to the next word - there's no finish line. The music was that way, too.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.
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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.
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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
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The idea that modernisation makes for enhanced national power and rapid progress and helps everyone achieve greater happiness has its origins in the astonishing political, economic and military successes of western Europe in the 19th century.
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I am not from a film family or a Mumbai girl. The probability of getting a second chance is low, and so one has to be more careful.
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EmTech Asia brings together some of the brightest minds in technology and computer security.
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The biggest thing the money Infosys brought me is the freedom to do what I want. And what I want is to give millions more the opportunities I had.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.
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I'm proud of my decade-long fight to have all ophthalmologists re-certify, regardless of age.
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My connection with Basquiat was really in Los Angeles, which really was a whole different world to what he was experiencing in New York.
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It would have been easy for me to bring out a real cheesy pop song, but 'Please Don't Let Me Go' isn't your typical 'X Factor' single, and it's a grower, not a shower.
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You don't just have a story - you're a story in the making, and you never know what the next chapter's going to be. That's what makes it exciting.
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During my career several people have tried to push me out the door... Nobody has succeeded yet.
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I can understand the natural anxiety of readers when waiting for another installment of a favourite series, but I think it is much more important to get a book right than it is to have it appear on time.
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You have a burden going into any campaign when you're raising money to fund that effort because there's always a desire to spend more money than you have.
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If every effect of any new products or methods were required to be known before they could be produced and marketed, they would not be true innovations - and thus not represent new knowledge of what people would like, if offered.
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Most of the things we buy are wants. And we call them needs, but they're wants.
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Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate is natural, but he should say to himself, 'How can I help this writer to say it better in his own style?' and avoid 'How can I show him how I would write it, if it were my piece?'
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But there she was, sobbing for Yolie, and he wondered why some people stayed soft no matter what happened to them.
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I've carved a different path which is not that affected by what happens in the bad side of politics. I've always surrounded myself with music and art and love and all those things - pleasures that are sort of immune from all that.
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Many people in the neighborhood liked hip-hop and house music, and I couldn't play that. You can't perform that on guitar or drums, which was what I was playing, at the time. But, I got so much from mariachi bands that were constantly playing in the neighborhood.
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Usually the lyrics go from one word to the next word - there's no finish line. The music was that way, too.
