Virgil Abloh Quotes
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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If I go out there and am myself, and I do what makes me comfortable and what I think is true to my artistry, and they don't like it, then that's fine. I walk off stage, and I know there's nothing there's nothing I could have done differently.
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My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
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You need to train your brain to be positive.
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I went down to Venezuela and ended up renting a helicopter and flew with my sons to the tops of the tepuis, these freestanding jungle mesas, 'lost worlds' as it were. In fact, it's almost impossible to access them without one. So we were able to land and spend some time there. We were trapped for about six hours by clouds that came in.
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I have 'To Kill A Mockingbird' signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession.
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I think I surprise some people because a lot of the time, I roll out of bed and go to school, and it's like I don't wear anything that interesting sometimes.
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As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population.
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If you take a frozen box and stick it in the microwave, you become connected to the factory. We've forgotten who we are.
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But things move in circles: one minute it's the models who are famous, then it's the actresses, then it's the designers.
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I'll make the right decision, whichever one it is. I have to be 100 percent, not 95 or 99.
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People call me a hermit. But I'm happy.
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Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realise you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.
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I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed.
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When the United States media is paying attention, that's when you're really representing your country.
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I don't think playing a villain is my greatest talent.
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The last eight years have created a lot of deep-seated hostility. People take political decisions very personally, and today there is a constant, ongoing attack, with one side or the other being maligned.
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I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
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People usually spend the first two months playing themselves up, not really being themselves. You waste those two months - and then they tell you, 'You're not who I was dating the first month!'
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The problem of South Africa is different than the world thinks. There is no native problem. The native worker gets more than white workers do in England! [...] The South African government is not a police state. It's easier on people than the United States government!
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An 'insult comic' is the title I was given. What I do is exaggeration. I make fun of people, at life, of myself and my surroundings.
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I don't sleep as much as normal people do.
