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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I was a huge Beatles fan. The Stones, Dylan. Later on, I got into Stevie Wonder, and Bill Withers - he's one of my heroes. Al Green, too.
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The singular point of beautiful objects, and people, is that they are experienced not as parts, or ratios between cheekbones and chin, but as wholes. The experience of beauty is a perception, but it is one that mixes up various other sensations and makes them converge in a particular way.
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Life starts at conception and must be protected from the first moment.
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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Hire extremely independent, intelligent, and passionate people, not necessarily "experts." Maybe three or four of my employees have MBAs, and those guys aren't necessarily at the top of the food chain.
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We all ended up jumping up and down, hugging each other when Ali won; cause Ali is the greatest.
