Virgil Abloh Quotes
I'm constantly inspired by my friends and the people I surround myself with and the cities that I'm traveling to.
Quotes to Explore
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
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I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.
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I was not the pampered baby, no. I'm five years younger, and my parents were actually very strict with me, more strict than with the other ones.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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My father was my hero, and he died when I was 11. So, I really never experienced the kind of natural teenage rebellion or the anger at him. I never experienced those feelings as a young person.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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If you just give somebody a blank check without any deliverables associated with that, you're not going to get the improvements that you want to get.
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We write the song, then it gets played for the artist, and they somehow fall in love with it and go back in and make it their own.
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If people buy my books for vanity, I consider it a tax on idiocy.
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The way our government handled the Chibok girls case goes beyond an election matter. This is not a one-time issue we discuss over elections. We need to have a deeper conversation about what kind of a nation we want to be.
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I think 'Dear White People,' the show, is a tremendous artistic achievement. It's always hinting that there is something beyond the pleading and wokeness, something that the show's more militant characters can't see.
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It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task.
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To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.
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I never really wanted to be a singer. I always preferred to be behind the camera.
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My grandmother always used to wear this English perfume called Tuberose and then she died and then I dated this girl who wore the same thing. Every time I hung out with her, I could only think of my recently deceased grandmother. So sometimes a signature scent can be good and sometimes it can be bad.
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For our anniversary, my wife and I went to see Godzilla, and then we ate at Barnyard Venice, and it was like, 'We are crazy! The Kardashians have to keep up with us!'
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I'm a Democrat, and I have strong reasons for being a Democrat.
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I needed more knowledge in rigging and knotting. I started collecting books on knots and really learning more and more. That's how it started. And also in magic, of course. With a piece of rope, you can do magic.
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I know divers, and divers men know me, which love me as I do them: yet if I should pray them, when I meet them in the street openly, they would abhor me; but if I pray them where they be appointed to meet me secretly, they will hear me and accept my request.
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Ray Bradbury taught me the importance of metaphor and simile and poetic style.
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The task is not to overcome opponents in general but only those opponents against whom one has to summon all one's strength, one's skill and one's swordsmanship-in fact to master opponents who are one's equals.
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I'm constantly inspired by my friends and the people I surround myself with and the cities that I'm traveling to.
