Avey Tare (David Michael Portner) Quotes

I think we stumbled onto our own sort of lore back in high school. We weren't with the drinkers, we were more the psychedelic warriors. We sat around watching horror films.

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• The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.

  

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• There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.

  

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• Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.

  

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• When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.

  

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• In my personal life, I would just feel like, I will always be cool with everyone.

  

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• The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.

  

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• There should be a minimum on the air pressure but not a maximum. Every game, they're taking air out of the footballs I'm throwing, and I think that's a disadvantage for the way that I like them prepped.

  

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• Climate change is obviously happening and there is obviously a man-made contribution.

  

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• I was interested in aerospace and flying, and the U.S. is really the best place in the world for flying.

  

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• A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.

  

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• To say I like social media is an understatement.

  

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• I think we stumbled onto our own sort of lore back in high school. We weren't with the drinkers, we were more the psychedelic warriors. We sat around watching horror films.

  

  Avey Tare Animal Collective
  • Thinking
  • School
  • Film