Alex Kapranos Quotes
Just because you can leap off a drum kit doing a scissors kick while hitting a chord, people expect you to be an extrovert socially. But I'm not always comfortable with the idea of small talk at a party.
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People get TV deals by doing something in their grandmother's basement. It is definitely the wave. Everybody is trying to do all that stuff. I mean, the Internet is the only reason that I've gotten work is because I've somehow created a line and people have seen it. And then I've been asked to auditions.
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Anya Hindmarch is indeed a handbag designer; she has the requisite fabulous life, tasteful home, and loving husband. She is also beautiful and self-deprecating, and has five children aged 5 to 20 and a philanthropic bent which spans causes from cancer care to Britain's Conservative Party.
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People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
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Education is a way of empowering people; it opens up so many doors and is fundamental to everybody. And teachers are not often appreciated in the way that they should be.
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You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
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The right-wing of the Republican party isn't so much a political agenda as a plea for help.
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I used to always run off at the mouth and talk about people. I just didn't know that it would make a living for me.
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Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.
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Everyone knows that metaphors are important, yet we have no idea why.
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We have so many rich people in Switzerland. They should take more responsibility for the general public. There is almost no tradition of philanthropy here anymore, unlike in the U.S.
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My mother and I were very close and even when I left home and came to London I would ring her every day. She was very proud of me and loved my celebrity. She would often come to shoots and TV shows with me.
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It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
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Costume people are always saying they don't have clothes big enough for me.
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Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere.
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Being a mom makes you far more compassionate. You have more empathy for people, more love. I was always taught to say thank you, and I'm very grateful. And my kids have that quality, too.
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I know victims of domestic abuse. I know what it takes for people to get out, and I also know why people stay. It's heartbreaking.
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People understand what is good for them in the long run. In the long run, what is good for people is that India's economy continues to grow at clipping pace, 8% and above, that itself brings host of benefits to the people. It brings better roads, it brings better schools, brings more money to the communities, it brings more jobs.
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So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.
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The American Music Awards mean more to us; that's a people's award, and we're a people's band. The Grammys are the critics.
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Being Henry Fonda's daughter got me started. But it didn't keep me working.
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I don't feel any need to play the role of the clown. In my private life I take a break from humor.
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The Navy credits me with more kills as a sniper than any other American service member, past or present.
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Well, we ought to make clear to everybody that the next Korean War, if one were ever to happen, is going to be the last Korean War because it's going to end with a unified peninsula, and it's go to be under Seoul, not Pyongyang.
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Just because you can leap off a drum kit doing a scissors kick while hitting a chord, people expect you to be an extrovert socially. But I'm not always comfortable with the idea of small talk at a party.
