Stephen Malkmus Quotes
When I was a kid I really liked the guitarist of The Doors Robby Krieger. He plays blues, but he plays a lot of melodic things. He plays scales that are kind of unusual, and some bent notes.
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Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.
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You can go to work and actually make someone else's job less miserable. Use your job to help others.
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The poem goes form the poet’s gibberish to The gibberish of the vulgate and back again.
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Be inspired but not proud.
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I don't ever want to be the type of person to tell you what to think or what to believe. Whatever stage in your life that you are in, I want you to organically reach whatever conclusions that you possibly reach.
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My interest in science was always essentially limited to the study of principles.... That I have published so little is due to this same circumstance, as the great need to grasp principles has caused me to spend most of my time on fruitless pursuits.
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Abate the edge of traitors, gracious Lord, That would reduce these bloody days again And make poor England weep in streams of blood! Let them not live to taste this land's increase That would with treason wound this fair land's peace! Now civil wounds are stopped, peace lives again: That she may long live here, God say amen!
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I have to be able to see the thing that's going on that I'm writing about, or else it just doesn't make any sense to me.
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When God gives you AIDS - and God does give you AIDS, by the way - make lemonAIDS.
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A powerful idea communicates some of its power to the man who contradicts it. Partaking of the universal community of minds, it infiltrates, grafts itself on to, the mind of him who it refutes, among other contiguous ideas, with the aid of which, counter-attacking, he complements and corrects it; so that the final verdict is always to some extent the work of both parties to a discussion.
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I think that's what all art is for - for people to express what it is to be human. That's the purpose of it.
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Life is moments going by, but if you don't grab them, they're gone. For a long time, the only moments that were available were bad ones. So now I make sure to grab the good ones.
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Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.
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You must always watch when David Lynch makes anything.
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Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him.
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When I was a kid I really liked the guitarist of The Doors Robby Krieger. He plays blues, but he plays a lot of melodic things. He plays scales that are kind of unusual, and some bent notes.
