Vijay Sethupathi Quotes

Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.

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• My grandfather milked several cows twice a day and supplied the neighbours with dairy products. He liked to go visiting around the county on Saturdays, and he also enjoyed the neighbours when they came by once a week with their empty milk jars. He walked them out to their cars and hung over the driver's side window until they drove off.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Day
  • Week
  • Grandfather

• Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Learn
  • Attitude
  • Questions

• I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, 'the soft bigotry of low expectations.'

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Country
  • Love
  • Expectations

• I come from a place where everything about me, even my body language, is saying: I mean you no harm. I smile, I laugh. Basic stuff for most people.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • People
  • Language
  • Smile

• Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.

  

  D. L. Hughley
  • Human
  • Point
  • Group

• I was considered an ugly duckling.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Ugly
  • Considered

• What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Thinking
  • School
  • Negative

• There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Invest
  • Horizon
  • Beyond

• Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Language
  • Literature
  • Communication

• With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn't have to all make sense. I don't have all the answers.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Peace

• Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Illusions
  • Drop
  • Luggage

• You wear fur, it's like you trying to be something you not. You get fur, you can spend the same money on like, 30 jackets.

  

  Waka Flocka Flame
  • Trying
  • Money
  • You

• One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Career
  • Point
  • Committed

• My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Start

• Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Distance
  • Improving

• The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Life
  • Moments
  • Acting

• I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.

  

  Wale
  • Mind
  • Speak
  • Loved

• When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Up
  • You
  • Buying

• I love the song 'Into the Night.' It's Roy Orbison meets David Lynch meets Iggy Pop on amphetamines. It has a punk edge that is not HIM, per se. It is super melodic and super '60s, and that is very new to me and it is a sense of achievement to me.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Love
  • Song
  • Night

• I don't regard myself as a great classical or jazz pianist. I like country music, but I'm not a great player. I just like music. Drums 'n' bass is pretty exciting and I'd love to explore it.

  

  Keith Emerson Emerson, Lake & Palmer
  • Great
  • Music
  • Country

• I grew up with 'Cinderella.' So that was my go-to Disney film, definitely. It was princess-related, and coming from a smaller area in Illinois and wanting to do something greater than myself in Broadway, that was a film that I could really relate to.

  

  Jodi Benson
  • Up
  • Disney
  • Princess

• I was born in America but all of my friends' parents, everybody's parents, including my own, had come to America from Europe. Many people in my neighborhood hardly bothered to learn English.

  

  Christopher Walken
  • People
  • Friends
  • America

• Faith is not jumping to conclusions. It is concluding to jump.

  

  W. T. Purkiser
  • Faith
  • Jump
  • Conclusion

• Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
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  • Important
  • Why