Stephen Malkmus Quotes
I don't know if you look back on your life and just see successes, but probably the first things that pop up are the regrets.
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You need to let your hair produce its own oils and be healthy.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
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Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.
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My schedule is so crazy.
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Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.
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The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.
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Expanding background checks will help create a uniform standard for all gun purchases and prevent criminals and the dangerously mentally ill from obtaining powerful weapons.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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Divorce isn't one-sided, and I am by no means perfect. Becoming accountable for my role in the relationship was very empowering.
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Eating-wise, I'm fairly disciplined. I have to be, because if you're not eating correctly, you're not giving your body the fuel it needs. So, I stay away from carbs after the morning, and I eat a lot of protein - fish, chicken, and no red meat.
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The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.
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Despite what you might guess, when monitoring your breathing, your body doesn't care whether you're inhaling enough oxygen. It cares only whether you're expelling enough carbon dioxide - that's the gas that sets off the panic button when you're suffocating.
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I've traveled around the world.
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Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.
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I'm a voracious reader. I also have a ton of favorite TV shows I'm addicted to.
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I love ballet because you can see how beautiful the body is.
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When you're shooting a movie, it's two months of your life usually. You don't really have time to see anybody else. Your friends are put on hold while you're shooting, and what you have is the family that you create on set.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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North America can easily fragment quickly as did the Eastern Bloc in 1989.
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I definitely managed to do different kinds of things. My focus is usually who the director is, because at the end of the day the director is the storyteller, what the movie is all about. I don't want to participate in something that I don't think is constructive storytelling.
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Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.
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It's interesting to talk to Bernie [Sanders] about his life and growing up, you know, growing up in an immigrant neighborhood in Brooklyn. His mother died at a very early age. He was young then. And, you know, I think that experience really shaped him.
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I don't know if you look back on your life and just see successes, but probably the first things that pop up are the regrets.
