Jim Capaldi Quotes
We all ended up jumping up and down, hugging each other when Ali won; cause Ali is the greatest.
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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Most people who are looking to get a handgun are going to get a carry permit. But most people don't carry around rifles with them; they keep them at home or at the range.
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I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.
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I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense.
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Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
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I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.
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For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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I don't want to spend the next two years in Holiday Inns.
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Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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My dad is truly the person who always made me believe in myself, to appreciate that I was smart.
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Look: I don't want to live with a nuclear Iran. I would like to make it uncomfortable for them to seek it.
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I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people.
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L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.
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My dad grew up in a mud hut and studied by candlelight. He was 14 when he got a scholarship to Russia. He was super clever - the cleverest person. He landed in 5ft of snow, and was alone at 14, studying science and engineering. He didn't have a bed, and he slept on a table.
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If the movie is good then great, but if it's not then God, I feel so bad for that person with their face fifty feet tall, all blown up. Some people would be happy with that, that as long as their face was out there they're stoked about it. I'm not like that.
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There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
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'Die a Happy Man' was one of those that, when I wrote it and sent it to my label, their response was, 'This is a career record.' I was like, 'Why do you think that?' I think the stars aligned.
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Sen. Clinton carried our district, and it is difficult to vote against your constituents.
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We all ended up jumping up and down, hugging each other when Ali won; cause Ali is the greatest.
