Kurt Vile Quotes
I feel like if you sit down and have an assistant engineer and a producer in a top-notch studio and everyone sets up all the mikes perfect, all of a sudden it's really hard to live that melancholy song. It's hard to really live it in the moment.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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Most people who are looking to get a handgun are going to get a carry permit. But most people don't carry around rifles with them; they keep them at home or at the range.
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I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.
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I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
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You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.
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I remember back in the early '70s, when I had a disastrous Grand Prix, my wife, Lynn, said to me, 'Don't worry, you're going to be a late boomer.' That's what she said to me, and I've always held that thought.
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Banking gives you a glimpse into what makes companies succeed and what makes companies fail.
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Many occasions I've sat down with Israelis to say, where do you see your country in 10 years time, and work me back, so we can figure out the synergies and the connections between Israel and the rest of the Arab world. No Israeli has ever been able to answer that question.
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While I have the greatest respect for the Supreme Court's members, I cannot claim familiarity with any particular judicial philosophies the justices might possess.
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There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor.
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I don't think anybody wants to see a dour 'Star Trek' movie.
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Deepen your existing spiritual commitment.
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'You told your mother I was gonna blow you up with a fucking pumpkin bomb? What did she say?' 'She. Was. Terrified. She wants me to move home.'
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In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.
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There's always a reaction based on fear. People assume if you're criticizing a decision to go to war, then you're saying something against the soldiers-which is not the case.
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I certainly felt like my life had been enriched and had also changed forever when I took 'In A World...' to Sundance.
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According to the committee's findings, a network of mobile missiles carrying the newest warheads could be tested by China this year and deployed as early as 2002.
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I feel like if you sit down and have an assistant engineer and a producer in a top-notch studio and everyone sets up all the mikes perfect, all of a sudden it's really hard to live that melancholy song. It's hard to really live it in the moment.
