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.

  

  Carly Fiorina
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• You can go to work and actually make someone else's job less miserable. Use your job to help others.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Work
  • Job
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• The poem goes form the poet’s gibberish to The gibberish of the vulgate and back again.

  

  Wallace Stevens

• Be inspired but not proud.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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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.

  

  Octavia Spencer
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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.

  

  Albert Einstein
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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!

  

  William Shakespeare
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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.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
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• When God gives you AIDS - and God does give you AIDS, by the way - make lemonAIDS.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • God

• 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.

  

  Marcel Proust
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• Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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• One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.

  

  K. A. Applegate
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• It's not just one of these reunions where it's the original drummer and three guys you never heard of.

  

  Eric Carmen
  • Heard
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• In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.

  

  Carter G. Woodson
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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.

  

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