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.
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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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I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.
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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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I was, by the way - I'm an Essex lad, born and raised in Essex in the U.K.
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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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I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.
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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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For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.
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Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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A new car is not going to change your life.
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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.
