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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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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Although it was in primitive times and differently called the Lord's day or Sunday, yet it was never denominated the Sabbath; a name constantly appropriate to Saturday, or the Seventh day both by sacred and ecclesiastical writers.
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In a situation where a lifelong school break was being imposed upon us by the terrorists, rising up against that became very important, essential.
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It's nice, being brought up with no money at all. It's just not how I measure success, so that makes it a bunch easier.
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Lots of comics try stuff out all year round, which is very sensible - I don't.
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Companies the size of PepsiCo is like running a little republic, there is no question about it. The only difference is that I don't have to worry about the media hounding me every day, on every word that I say. I have a board of directors that runs the country in the interest of the stake holders.
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We all ended up jumping up and down, hugging each other when Ali won; cause Ali is the greatest.
