Kurt Vile Quotes
I do a lot of things, and I'll get excited about them - maybe it'll be a song in a movie - and then it comes out, and you're like, 'Aww, that was cool, but it wasn't quite as big a deal as I thought it would be.'
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When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities.
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I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.
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Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.
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I know exactly what it is like to fight against the odds and to overcome adversity.
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There is no ideal body. It's just taking what you have and working it.
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I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
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Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.
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And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying, and I'm not a person who lives in a great deal of fear.
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What we want the folks in Ethiopia to know is that we are behind them in the democratic process. We know it is not perfect, as we are still working on ours; but we wish them success in this great and noble endeavor.
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My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.
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I sincerely believe that no problem is bigger than man, and problems are blown out of proportion by man himself.
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You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.'
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What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
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All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.
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I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something.
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Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
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I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.
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I didn't even know what it was when I started. But I was lucky. I found it at 16. Most people don't discover decathlon until they're 21 or 22.
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When I got to GM they were using a matrix method of management which means everybody has more than one boss. I first heard about that system many years ago. It's supposed to help with collaboration, but my assessment is that it's pretty hard to get geared for action that way.
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My dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner.
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If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven.
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I do a lot of things, and I'll get excited about them - maybe it'll be a song in a movie - and then it comes out, and you're like, 'Aww, that was cool, but it wasn't quite as big a deal as I thought it would be.'
