Kurt Vile Quotes
I've always been a deep sleeper; because I come from such a large family - there are 10 kids - I could sleep through anything. Even with my last day job, I'd sleep in later and later and start coming in an hour-and-a-half late. I got fired twice before I really got fired.
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I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.
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Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.
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I get asked this a lot: Why has soccer not succeeded? My answer is, soccer has succeeded. It is already the fastest growing youth participation sport in the U.S. It has already succeeded at the youth level, no question.
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We don't have a war on terror - that's a technique. We didn't have a war on blitzkriegs, and we didn't have a war on surprise attacks.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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I never felt popular as a child and never had best friends.
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I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.
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Polenta is to northern Italy what bread is to Tuscany, what pasta is to Emilia-Romagna and what rice is to the Veneto: easy to make, hungry to absorb other flavours, and hugely versatile.
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Of course the United States and Russia have different interests. Nevertheless, both are strategic partners.
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The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.
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My father was never around, and my mother used to worry that the kids won't grow up to be connected to him.
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Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.
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Politicians love power. I love freedom. That is why I am not a politician.
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The only two things you can truly depend upon are gravity and greed.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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Kevin Bacon and I went up for the same stuff, and people would say, 'You and Kevin have the same quality.' I was like, 'I do?' I remember seeing 'Footloose' and thinking, 'How do I have any kind of quality that that guy does?'
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All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat.
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You can survive tough situations and even turn them to your advantage by acting as if you are the person you want to be. When you act like that person, you can become that person. The hard parts are deciding whom you want to become, being willing to rehearse until you become that person, and forgiving yourself until you do.
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I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.
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There is always a place I can take someone's curiosity and land where they end up enlightened when we're done. That's my challenge as an educator. No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
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I always wanted to be Olympic champion and do clean programs.
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Happiness is an inside job.
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I've always been a deep sleeper; because I come from such a large family - there are 10 kids - I could sleep through anything. Even with my last day job, I'd sleep in later and later and start coming in an hour-and-a-half late. I got fired twice before I really got fired.
