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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Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat.
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I was unique in that I was a kind of black that white people could accept. I was their daydream. I had the worst kind of acceptance because it was never for how great I was or what I contributed. It was because of the way I looked.
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But I never, never thought of the ministry nor did - of course, television when I was growing up, there was no television. So I didn't know anything about it.
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It really comes down to Mick. He's the one who was constantly trying to get these five people in one room together. This is his love, his baby. It's his band, and there's nothing more he loves to do than get up on stage and play with us.
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A lot of people don't give much thought to what they believe, and it's easy for them to hold what often are two conflicting ideas in their head at the same time.
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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.
