Alex James Quotes
The thing I really like about this band is that every time I walk out of my door I bump into Graham, no matter where I am! That always reassures me.
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My vision for the future always centers around our children - it always centers around our children. So anytime anybody asks me what are the three most important issues facing the Congress, I always say the same thing: 'Our children, our children, our children.'
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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
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The function of the killer and watching him - whatever that says about the world in which we live - it was always more about that world than it was about the actual watching.
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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
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Of all the labels and tags and epithets people have forced upon me, there's one I don't dislike. I get called the 'enfant terrible.' In every article, it's always there. So I have to give that a meaning.
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If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.
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I was into sports and swimming as a kid and didn't spend a whole lot of time sitting down. I was a gymnast.
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In the forefront of science, there is not much difference between religion and science. People harbor beliefs. That's what happens when people believe something religiously.
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We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.
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Straight up. You can't mess with Jay when it's time to come play.
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Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
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I've worked with a lot of really fine actors, both on stage and on screen. The level of their game lifts me up and brings the level of my game up to theirs. Always. It's like a constant upgrade.
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If you really want to step up your team's creative thinking, take a hard look at how many people you're putting in a room together. More than three to five is probably too many.
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I had never come across the 'X-Men' comics till I was asked to play Magneto, so I just jumped into that job.
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I have a collection of impractical vintage dresses and jackets. I guess I never grew out of the 'playing dress up' faze. It's actually a bit of a problem.
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Most of the dramatism in Wagner comes from a very close link between the music and the language of the text. So much of the expressivity of Wagner's music dramas comes from the singers' capacity to play with the sound of the language. This kind of thing you can do very well in concert performance.
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Most people understand life expectancy has changed since Social Security started in 1937 when folks lived to be 59 years old. Today, they live to be 77 years old.
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And, of course, I'm constantly energized by designing courses around the world.
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Sometimes, I wake up and the skies are grey and everything's horrible.
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I'm an actor, so I am always scared. You never know if you are on vacation or that you have been retired and they just didn't tell you.
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It's interesting how some songs really lend themselves to performance in a big public venue and performance by a band and so on, and so they're even more successful in that context than they were on the record.
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I'm like a fungus; you can't get rid of me.
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So there was something of a learning curve with doing your own thing and people seeing you outside of the band. I mean, people have never really heard my voice before - or heard a whole record of mine before. So it was a completely new experience.
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The thing I really like about this band is that every time I walk out of my door I bump into Graham, no matter where I am! That always reassures me.
