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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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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When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.
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An inert historical fact is any fact about a perfectly ordinary arrangement of matter in the world at some point in the past that is no longer discernible, a fact that has left no footprints at all in the world today.
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I have an immigrant mentality, which is that the job can be taken away at any time, so make sure you earn it every day...immigrants come here they have no safety net-zero. I landed here with $500 in my pocket. I had no one here to pay for me.
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To enjoy-to love a thing for its own sake and for no other reason.
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I'm always the last person in the world who would ever try to predict a trend.
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My music has a high irritation factor. I've always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was a joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccentricity to the bland.
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Where the 'Bay of Pigs' invasion failed, undoubtedly the tourist invasion will succeed in forever changing the landscape of island. What comes next in Cuba? The answer is that many Cubans aren't waiting around to find out.
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Instead of exhibiting talent in the hope that the world would forgive their eccentricities, they have exhibited only their eccentricities, in the hope that the world would give them credit for talent.
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They proved that if you quit smoking, it will prolong your life. What they haven't proved is that a prolonged life is a good thing. I haven't seen the stats on that yet.
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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.
