Kurt Vile Quotes

'Smoke Ring' was a downer, then 'Wakin' was an upturn.

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• I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Good
  • Thought
  • Constitution

• I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Time
  • May
  • Training

• My grandma passed away at 98 1/2 and I want to live to 100. I want to be able to do what I can do even at 100.

  Gail Devers
  • Live
  • Want
  • I Can

• I got a little bit lost in the writing process: like, that moment in the 'Fight Song' music video where I'm throwing the crumpled paper on the bed, that was really true life. I was filling journals with different possibilities of lyrics for the first verse. And none of them felt right.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Life
  • Music
  • Different

• I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don't have any anthologies anymore, do we?

  

  Aaron Spelling
  • Story
  • Tell
  • Miss

• When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Good
  • Free
  • Freedom

• The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Life
  • Culture
  • Service

• Sense About Science is much more than an innocent fact-checking service. It is a spin-off of a bizarre political network that began life as the ultra-left Revolutionary Communist Party and switched over to extreme corporate libertarianism when it launched 'Living Marxism' magazine in the late eighties.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Life
  • Science
  • Political

• E-mail, when it became mobile - what happened? Utilization of email went through the roof. Just pure Internet access and data - what happens when you mobilize it? Multiples. People are dependent upon broadband and as you mobilize it, they become even more dependent on broadband.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • People
  • Internet
  • Data

• Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Think
  • Language
  • Magic

• If you're not a confident person, pretend to be one.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • You
  • Person
  • Confident

• I am happy in Paris.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Happy
  • Paris

• Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Up
  • Well
  • Southern

• I would literally climb out of the cradle while my parents slept, go and crawl off. I did this a couple of times apparently. I'd cross the road and into someone's house, wake them up banging pots and pans in the kitchen.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Up
  • House
  • Parents

• In 'Rocky' and 'Paradise Alley,' my dad played very expressive characters, and he was out there.

  

  Sage Stallone
  • Dad
  • Paradise
  • Rocky

• I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who's handicapped, it might be reasonable to let him have an office on the first floor rather than the government saying you have to have a $100,000 elevator.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Think
  • Government
  • Saying

• What I've been conscious of, from the beginning is that I can't be Jil Sander.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Beginning
  • Conscious
  • Been

• What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Life
  • Book
  • Single

• One of the best movies of the year was 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes.' That's not just an action movie - it's a prison film.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Movie
  • Action
  • Best

• Over the years, my art box has gotten bigger and bigger.

  

  Alison Mosshart
  • Art

• One of the tours we had scheduled - the gaslight tour of Jack the Ripper's haunts, and on Halloween, no less, was canceled at the last minute. I recommend making sure you know the numbers of your tours and destinations so you can confirm your schedule along the way. Also, though we laugh about it now, the Eiffel Tower was on strike so we couldn't go up!

  

  Andrea Phillips
  • Schedule
  • Tours
  • Destinations

• Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • People
  • Love
  • Character

• 'Smoke Ring' was a downer, then 'Wakin' was an upturn.

  

  Kurt Vile