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.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.
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The DNA of a true Hindu is liberal. We are, by essence, liberal.
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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.
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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.
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I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.
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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.
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Any job is wonderful.
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Fear can make all of us do the wrong things sometimes.
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I have a very successful father-in-law and family with very different political views.
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In our school, there were lots of bands putting up posters saying 'Come to our gigs'.
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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
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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.
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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.
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The Lord doesn't like us to be dead. Be alive. Sometimes I dance to the glory of the Lord, because He said so.
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People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.
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When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.
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Modern dancing is old fashioned.
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Freediving can be extremely dangerous. It's got an incredibly high fatality rate outside of competition. But there's never been a fatality in competition. In terms of spear fishing and people who train by themselves, it's the second most dangerous sport in the world after base jumping. If you black out by yourself, you drown.
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I didn't feel like gymnastics were part of The Cars. I certainly philosophically didn't want to prod the audience to react to anything. To me, it was more like negative theater. We didn't really talk to the audience. I didn't see that being a part of this band.
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I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor.
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I am not a politician and I have no intention of being one.
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Concern for someone else was a good remedy for taking the mind off one's own troubles.
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When I write, I tend to tap into this human wondering vibe that could come off negative, but it's really not.
