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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I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.
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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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We cannot let our respect for the FBI blind us from the fact the FBI has sometimes come up short of our expectations.
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Hold the door for a lady. Wait until a lady is out of the elevator.
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Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.
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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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Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.
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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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What counts for most people in investing is not how much they know, but rather how realistically they define what they don't know. 'The genius of Warren Buffett in 23 quotes' MarketWatch (19 August 2015)
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It's hard to accept the truth, especially about yourself.
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I hear a lot of things about myself. I hear that I'm jet-set and this and that, and I'm really not. I live a very quiet life.
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I'm not dying for everyone to hear everything we do. Forty minutes every two years is sensible.
