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Kurt Vile Quotes

I got depressed so many times by my blue-collar life and self-conscious about the fact that I didn't go to college. I was always working super low-end jobs, being the complete opposite of what I wanted to be.

Kurt Vile

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: January 3, 1980

Topics

Life College Go Always Blue-Collar

A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.

John le Carre

World View Place Dangerous Desk

I abandoned my second novel completely. Writing 'Kavalier & Clay,' I had several moments of utter collapse. Same with 'The Yiddish Policemen's Union.'

Michael Chabon

Writing Moments Same Abandoned Clay

I'm not American. I still have my Japanese citizenship.

Masi Oka

American Citizenship Japanese Still

Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is.

Chris Abani

Women Men Simple Sometimes Say How

With the fights I have lost, I always want another shot and think that I can beat them.

Chuck Liddell

Think I Can Lost Want Always Beat

I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.

Arthur Ashe

Hope Striving Achieving Anything

For 10 minutes, I was somebody's mother, and that was both the most traumatic and also the most transcendent experience of my life.

Ariel Levy

Life Mother Experience My Life Most

I do believe that making a factory for innovation, a moon-shot factory, is possible.

Astro Teller

Innovation Believe Possible Making

We - the current generation - have a moral responsibility to make the world better for future generations.

Priscilla Chan

Future Responsibility World Better

In the very few interviews I've made, it doesn't matter how long we've talked to each other, the headline is still just about my paycheck.

PewDiePie

Long Matter Paycheck Just Interviews

It is not that I don't have a fear of sharks, it is that I have a respect for them, so that I know any more than if I were to go into the jungle, I would have a fear of tigers, that I would try to lower the odds.

Peter Benchley

Fear Respect Sharks Jungle Go Know

Before I came out, I had a lot of anger. For years people would ask, 'How are you doing?' and I'd say, 'Good, fine.' It's show business, and that's what you have to show.

Ricky Martin

Good Business Anger People Doing