Kurt Vile Quotes

I'm joking all the time with my friends, even when we're talking about serious things.

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• I'm not a fan of any genre but am a fan of movies that are intelligent and/or funny. That goes across all genres: a horror movie, a zombie movie, alien invaders, chick flick, or raunchy comedy. If it's well done, I'm a fan.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Done
  • Movie
  • Funny

• I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Up
  • World
  • Work

• In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Society
  • Respect
  • Talent

• Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • School
  • Learn
  • Example

• I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Star
  • Religion
  • Belief

• I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Man
  • Sweet
  • Sorry

• When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Feeling

• I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • People
  • Marriage
  • Gay

• Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.

  

  Barbara Goldsmith
  • Art
  • History
  • Question

• Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.

  

  Faith Hill
  • World
  • Great
  • Live

• Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Personality
  • Successful

• I don't know for Justin; he's always looking for meaning out of his relationships with people. I don't think he's as trapped into the drug thing as a lot of the others are.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • People
  • Drug
  • Meaning

• I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.

  

  Yuna
  • Think
  • Always
  • Beginning

• We recognized in 1996 that, with progress in the field of genetics accelerating at a breathtaking pace, we need to ensure that advances in treatment and prevention of disease do not constitute a new basis for discrimination.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Progress
  • Discrimination

• The production value of YouTube videos is not there.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Value
  • Production
  • YouTube

• I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Promises
  • Commit
  • Loyal

• I love wearing men's clothing and underwear.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Men
  • Wear
  • Clothing

• I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Political
  • You
  • Car

• The best comedy audiences in the country and this is tried and true, I'm not just saying it, in my opinion are Boston, Atlanta, and Chicago.

  

  Denis Leary
  • Country
  • True
  • Comedy

• Stable climates with muted seasons allow more kinds of organisms to specialize on narrower pieces of the environment, to outcompete the generalists around them, and so persist for longer periods of time. Species are packed more tightly. No niche, it seems goes unfilled. Specialization is likely to be pushed to bizarre, beautiful extremes.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Environment

• I used to take girls out on a date to Night Court. And I'll tell you, most girls, they got a kick out of going to Night Court. 'Cause you get a lot of laughs... and it's cheap.

  

  Peter Falk
  • Night

• I'm pretty hardcore. I stick exactly to what I'm doing. So I write a novel in one period, and then I'll write stories in another period. I only work on one thing at once, because I'm afraid that I wouldn't finish what I'd started.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Pretty

• What's one more meaningless act of violence on that zoo of a planet? It would be appropriate. When in Rome; burn it.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Violence

• I'm joking all the time with my friends, even when we're talking about serious things.

  

  Kurt Vile
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Serious