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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On a certain level, I don't think there is an answer to what the American way is, because it is constantly being re-defined. It's also been exploited and capitalized upon and politicized by one side or the other to the point that a certain degree of cynicism has attached itself to that term.
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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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It's very important that we have a president who is mindful of the cruelty that is perpetrated on animals.
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It's hard to be scared if you don't feel for a character, because you don't care if they die or live.
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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
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I'm terrified about the day that I enter the gates of heaven and God says to me, just a minute.
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And Grandmother Hall really imagines that she can raise Eleanor and her two brothers differently than these children were raised. And if she is very strict and everything is very regimented and ordered and disciplined, that they will become the perfect children who her own children did not become.
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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.
