Kurt Vile Quotes
If I sit in the same square room and work on something too long, I feel like you just go mad.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at the crossroads of several great, elaborate cultures with their own mythology and religion and art and architecture and cultural belief. In fact, so many of the mythologies of the world describe the same events, just from different points of view.
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
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I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.
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Developing new products is labour- intensive. So is producing the capital goods needed to make them. These jobs disappear when innovation stalls.
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No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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I don't wear plaid shirts.
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When I interview celebrities, I always try to throw them off balance. My favorite is to ask 'em about crazy sex stuff like donkey punches and Monroe transfers. Works every time.
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In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.
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As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.
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Congressman Watt has a long history of advocating against predatory lending and the mortgage practices that caused millions of families to lose their homes.
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If Trump is president, I think that his administration will do real structural damage that will take years or decades for us to undo.
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You will never catch me in a dress without a pair of Spanx and a bra.
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Starting a company in San Francisco when we did usually meant it was destined to be a data-driven tech company. But that didn't seem to fully encompass what we wanted with Airbnb. When we tried looking through a tech lens, it didn't work. The humanity was missing.
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Normally my problem is that I'm too inquisitive and want to do everything.
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If I sit in the same square room and work on something too long, I feel like you just go mad.
