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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I always think of it in terms of music. You're not always going to be a huge rock star in music, but musicians can play until the day they die. With sports, it's different. You can't always do it until the very end, and that's a hard reality of sports.
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Like most successful businesses, you and your employees have a vast knowledge base and expertise in your vertical, as well as a lot of great video and text content to prove it. So, why not monetize your expertise and create digital products and membership courses?
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The approach that the music industry took to fight piracy was the wrong strategy.
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One thing must be emphatically stated. The New Testament books did not become authoritative for the Church because they were formally included in a canonical list; on the contrary, the Church included them in her canon because she already regarded them as divinely inspired, recognizing their innate worth and generally apostolic authority, direct or indirect.
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Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around, we can avoid the fact of our mortality; we can still be innocent children.
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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.
