Virgil Abloh Quotes
My graphic design skills are superior to a lot of other things I can do; I use it as a part of my tool kit.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.
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I am the last guy that wants to quit making music.
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Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
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It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.
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My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but exciting.
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There's this really good line in 'Women in Love' where Ursula says, 'I always thought it was a sin to be unhappy.' And actually I think that's very common, it's what a lot of people feel - that you have an obligation to life to be happy if you can.
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What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.
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Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
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But I think the thing I'm proud of about the film is that there aren't many films - either independent films or mainstream Hollywood films - that are like this; it's of its own times, and it's the film Mike Nichols wanted to make.
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The finest lesson I've learned with age is that all I need is a small team of comrades who inspire me, try not to judge me, and remind me when I'm judging myself.
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Have common sense and stick to the point.
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I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point.
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When things are scary, or there's a struggle, I always think, 'How is this going to sound in my biography?' Sometimes I would just be living on protein shakes or the cheapest food that I could afford because I didn't have a lot of money.
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The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
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From the time I was 16 to really up until turning 21, the roles were really, really few and far between. I had people say that I just wasn't a good singer. They didn't know what to do with me; I would never fit in any markets. I almost quit acting altogether.
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I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
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But he had turned, little by little, a disturbance into words, he had made a pillow of old words, for his head.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar-that is, a person who continues to learn and inquire-can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide.
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A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
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But my point is that you design something in the end that precludes any unhealthy trading practices that are not going to serve your environmental or your economic objectives but now is not the time to do it.
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I happen to be pretty productive when I am in jail. When you are in jail, you have to spend more time with yourself.
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It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months.
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My graphic design skills are superior to a lot of other things I can do; I use it as a part of my tool kit.
