Kurt Vile Quotes

When I write, I tend to tap into this human wondering vibe that could come off negative, but it's really not.

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• Once you research an idea, you begin to develop a perspective. Writing about anything in public, often in real time, has helped fashion my views.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Real

• I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Think
  • You
  • Bank

• The DNA of a true Hindu is liberal. We are, by essence, liberal.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • True
  • Liberal
  • DNA

• I, for one, am pretty exhausted since I started blogging almost a year ago. But I am blaming that on my two sons, aged 3 and 6, whose perpetual-motion-machine energy is hard to keep up with at my advanced age.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Age
  • Energy
  • Exhausted

• It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Music
  • Always
  • Musicians

• I do think that there is a hunger in the land for a vision of confessional Christianity that is robust, God-centered, tough-minded, able to address today and tomorrow and the next day, and comprehensive.

  

  D. A. Carson
  • God
  • Today
  • Day

• Any job is wonderful.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Job
  • Wonderful
  • Any

• Fear can make all of us do the wrong things sometimes.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Fear
  • Sometimes
  • Wrong

• I have a very successful father-in-law and family with very different political views.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Different
  • Family
  • Father

• In our school, there were lots of bands putting up posters saying 'Come to our gigs'.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Up
  • School
  • Saying

• Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Great
  • Together
  • Wisdom

• I have never let down Italy, and I never will. I love my country, and I owe a lot to my country, and in that sense, whatever I can and will be able to do for my country, I will do.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Country
  • Sense
  • Will

• Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Want
  • Reason
  • Walls

• The Lord doesn't like us to be dead. Be alive. Sometimes I dance to the glory of the Lord, because He said so.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Sometimes
  • Dance
  • Said

• People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Change
  • Relationship

• When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • You
  • Amazing
  • Human

• Modern dancing is old fashioned.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Old
  • Modern
  • Dancing

• Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption, also.

  

  William Gilmore Simms
  • Action
  • Corruption
  • Idleness

• Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • People
  • War

• The feeling of your baby taking nourishment from your body for the first time is amazing, and it remains the most touching moment of my life.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Life
  • Time
  • Feeling

• A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures.

  

  Ben Shneiderman
  • Words
  • Picture

• To those searching for truth -- not the truth of dogma and darkness but the truth brought by reason, search, examination, and inquiry, discipline is required. For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction -- faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Truth
  • Darkness
  • Dogma

• When I write, I tend to tap into this human wondering vibe that could come off negative, but it's really not.

  

  Kurt Vile