Stephen Malkmus Quotes
I'm not dying for everyone to hear everything we do. Forty minutes every two years is sensible.
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I have always tried to make profitable films because people's offices shut down if films fail, and I will do everything to avoid that.
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When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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I just look at what's going on in the world.
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Early on, even before he was the front-runner, TV news was giving Trump far more attention than other candidates and far more than he deserved.
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That's a real secret. You can trust God. I feel I love the Lord with all of my heart, and he will not put more on me than I can bear. And so I always say, 'Lord, I trust you with me.' So I figure, anything that happens in my life, I must be able to bear it, or he wouldn't allow it to happen.
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A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book since they were children. Sadly, being taught literature often destroys the life of the books.
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Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection.
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The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
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I am performing this role of the artist and this role of the 'negress' coming into a white-box institution. It's kind of a self-appointed role: the self-designated negress.
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I wash my face day and night. I actually really love Dr. Lancer face wash, and I also love Neutrogena.
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Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was breaking them.
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It must be terribly lonely to be a king instead of a man.
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A tree grows. If you're staying the same, something is wrong. You're not alive.
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The question in the Simpson case has never been whether he is guilty or not guilty but, given the facts and circumstances of this case, whether it is possible for him to be innocent. And the answer to that question has always been an unequivocal no.
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My concentration span is truly that of a gnat. Some people have this ladder, and that's all there is - the ladder. I have the ladder, too, but there's a building around it with scaffolding, and lots of windows for me to peek into. Then suddenly I'll remember, 'Oh, there's the ladder. I should be concentrating on that.'
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In Israel, if a person doesn't agree with you, she just says no. In Alabama, someone would say, 'I'll think about it.' We would take that literally. So, if you ask for a favor and someone says they'll think about it, they're really not thinking about it.
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Remember for just one minute of the day, it would be best to try looking upon yourself more as God does, for She knows your true royal nature.
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If you spend an extra hour each day of study in your chosen field you will be a national expert in that field in five years or less.
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Through the years I've never stopped doing things, thinking about things, and I still think young.
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“It was a number of years of crashing and burning before I made the discovery that I was not God. Finally I realized that though I was not God, I was of God”
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I was so exhausted after fighting for the project for five years, shooting it was like the Bataan Death March.
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I'm not dying for everyone to hear everything we do. Forty minutes every two years is sensible.
