Alex Kapranos Quotes
Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.
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One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.
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The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.
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Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
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I am actually one of those who took President Obama at his word when he first ran - that he would get us out of ill-advised wars, that he would do something about health care costs, and that he would protect civil liberties. Like many Americans, I was disappointed.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true – to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.
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Chavez made a compete fool of himself in front of the entire world while giving the U.N. a black eye. But the real losers are the Venezuelan people who have to put up with this unstable character every day.
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Live shows are pretty much like the center of the storm... where the power comes from, the most raw experience. That's the juice. That's where we hit the hardest.
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Becoming a tutor was among the many attractive post-collegiate side careers I failed to pursue while devoting the bulk of my days to writing fiction.
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Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.
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There is a unique freshness when eating buckwheat noodles cold with plenty of herbs and citrus acidity. I can't think of any better use of chopsticks on a hot and sweaty evening.
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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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I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare.
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I didn't grow up in a wealthy family at all. Being at home all day and watching movies, that was a luxury.
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I wish I had given more time to learning classical singing.
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My imagination is closer to a child's imagination than to a grown-up's.
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The people who are making a lot of money and eating at McDonald's and watching MTV and have square eyeballs, they're over there. And then maybe there's like five other people left in America and I'm just waiting for them to come up with something interesting.
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It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.
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I always get jealous when I'm in London because the men are so well put together. They wear suits with shoes and ties that have splashes of colour here and there.
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You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is also thorns.
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Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.
