Jim Capaldi Quotes
For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
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I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.
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Your mind is what makes everything else work.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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I shall never ask any pilot to go on a mission that I won't go on.
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I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.
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As women, we must speak out, speak up, say no to our inheritance of loss and yes to a future of women-led dialogue about women's rights and value.
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I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.
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I've had a dozen novels published and have made far more than a dozen mistakes. Which is why Randy Susan Meyers and I wrote a guidebook to help authors avoid making our mistakes.
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Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
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I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me.
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This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
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I've heard this before from people: early 20s kind of screws with your head a little bit because you're transitioning into adulthood and actually becoming an adult with responsibilities and paying bills. So all of a sudden, it's like you're responsible now.
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I'm incredibly neurotic and a control freak. I like the thought that if there's going to be anyone to blame it's going to be me.
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I'm such a carnivorous researcher as an actor - I chew it up like it's meat, and I really don't know how to do that without the people that are producing or creating or writing that which they want me to chew up.
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I always pretend like I'm nervous no matter what. I try to fall asleep.
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Life isn't about the final moments, it's about the journey, it's about process. What makes 'Rocky' work as a movie is seeing him working his way up from the streets to the arena and the fight of his life. You could just show that fight, and it would be great, but seeing that journey illuminates that fight and adds profound meaning to it.
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I thought I should be a fool to allow work to interfere with a delight in the passing moment that I might never enjoy again so fully.
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If you don't mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.
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For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.
