Stephen Malkmus Quotes
Men are men and women are women, but the men are dumber than the women, usually.
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
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Sometimes you surf well and still don't win. It happens to everyone. You learn that one big score doesn't mean much if you don't have a backup. I guess every rookie learns that as time goes by. I took some big lessons from my losses.
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I'd love to be in a feature film, and I don't just mean in a starring role - it could be a small part. And I would like to act in television, to do comedy and drama.
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Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
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We have been playing to a 70-30 black to white audience. And we are just doing what should come next, trying to attract a larger house, trying to reach an audience that's half black and white.
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The more I come to know about the outside world's perception of China, the more I feel there are all sorts of misunderstandings, and to a certain extent, people do not get the full picture from the media. A lot of foreigners have few opportunities to visit China, and a lot of Chinese people do not have the chance to go to Europe or to the West.
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I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any.
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I know this is rather trivial - I will not be very deep about this - but it's great when you call the hottest restaurant in town and ask for a table for five at 8:00 P.M., and they say, 'Okay,' instead of, 'You have to wait two months.'
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How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.
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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
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I don't seek out love or relationships, just because my schedule is crazy.
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My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety.
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Teaching is in my blood.
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I take very seriously my responsibility as Secretary-General to make sure that the United Nations is doing everything it can to uphold the universal prohibition on the use of chemical weapons.
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If you really analyze my music, there is a lot of violence in my music because the Bronx, at the era and time I was coming up, was almost equivalent to how a 'Braveheart' or 'Gladiator' movie would be.
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Here are the facts we confront. No one is against conservation. No one is against alternative fuel sources.
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I've been doing interviews for years, and in all that time, I've virtually never read one and gone, 'Yep, factually and tonally that's exactly what happened.' Pretty much never.
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My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
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Almost all the people who have had most effect on me I seem to have met by chance.
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Learn from the experts. Study successful men and women and do what they do and you'll be successful too.
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Women in the workplace - we still have big strides to make. Girlfriend of mine just got a new job. First question the new boss asked her was if she could make a good cup of coffee... Yeah, she stormed right out of that Starbucks.
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Men are men and women are women, but the men are dumber than the women, usually.
