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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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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 love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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I am happy to donate funds to various organizations that help people in need.
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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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While books expand horizons by exposing us to worlds outside our own, children also need to see themselves, their experiences and their cultures reflected in books they read. Unfortunately, for too many children, this is not the norm.
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If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.
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So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.
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People just want to have access to all of the world's music.
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I don't think country music needs saving from anything.
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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.
