Geoff Capes Quotes
Being born not long after the war meant that money was tight. I grew up in a rural corner of Lincolnshire and my father worked on local farms. Being one of nine kids meant we didn't have much.
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It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
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We do high heels, and people know us for that, but the idea of wearing a flat from day to night feels special.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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It is so difficult in the world for people to find love, true love.
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A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.
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I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
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The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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Let's abolish the IRS, let's eliminate income tax, let's eliminate corporate tax, let's balance the federal budget, and if we need a tax, it can be one federal consumption tax.
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Most people marry their mother. I married my father.
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I need something to do when I'm not working, or I crawl up the walls. So I've just taken up kung fu. I was looking for some kind of calming, relaxing activity. I tried yoga, but it wasn't really me.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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I don't mind Ryan Bader thinking he deserves a title shot.
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I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.
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If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
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Radio is a really strange business now, too. There's a very narrow door and a very few people control what gets played.
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I may as well say it, I have been married three times.
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I feel happy to terrify kids.
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I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking.
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I feel like I'm the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids.
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The Nisour Square shooting is a signature point in the Iraq war, one that inflamed anti-American sentiment abroad and contributed to the impression that Americans were reckless and unaccountable. The Iraqi government wanted to prosecute the security contractors in Iraq, but the American government refused to allow it.
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Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.
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Small Faces were really a soul band as far as we were concerned. That's what we listened to; that's what we played, you know? We were pretty much based on Booker T. and the M.G.'s.
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Being born not long after the war meant that money was tight. I grew up in a rural corner of Lincolnshire and my father worked on local farms. Being one of nine kids meant we didn't have much.
