Alex Kapranos Quotes
If success had come along when I was 17 it would either have killed me or sent me completely mad.
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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I've known I wanted to do this ever since I was a little kid and I used to get in trouble at church for goofing off all the time: mocking the preacher, imitating people and the things they did. I later learned my mother used to be just as goofy as I was when she was younger. I mean, Eddie Murphy in 'Coming to America?' My hero.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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People think that I have this wonderful hourglass figure, but I owe that to designer Tadashi Shoji because he cuts for me really well.
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The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
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Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.
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My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house.
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My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
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I don't know if I have a 'Greatest Album Ever.' I really liked 'The Blueprint' by Jay-Z. The production on that album was really great. 'All I Need' was the first song I used for walk-on music in 2002 for my second time ever on stage, so that means a lot to me.
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I'm an enormous Tim Burton fan.
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In this new age of GPS, Google Earth and multidimensional digital maps, mapping is suddenly hugely relevant again.
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The Committee supports the idea that there should be, within the University of California, a campus which puts particular emphasis on the education of undergraduates within the framework of a College system.
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Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.
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Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.
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I love my kitchen. On the weekends, we have friends over, the kids are buzzing around, and we cook and talk.
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There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.
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I've never played a Dane in a movie. I've had offers to be in Danish movies, including for some good directors, but I either had a job at the time or, when I was available, the movie just didn't happen. Hopefully someday I'll do one.
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In order to be an image of God, the spirit must turn to what is eternal, hold it in spirit, keep it in memory, and by loving it, embrace it in the will.
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Character is developed one positive action at a time. Therefore nothing is actually trivial in our lives. To grow in character development, pay attention to seemingly trivial matters. Someone who grows from each minor life event will eventually reach high levels of character perfection.
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I like junk food, French fries, hamburgers - I love it.
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Domestic goddesses have infiltrated everybody's lives and raised the bar way too high.
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My son has been the best thing that has happened in my life. He has been amazing, and he is truly heaven-sent. And so, I just feel all that love.
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We're not all nice, and there are a lot of levels of ambition and niceness.
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If success had come along when I was 17 it would either have killed me or sent me completely mad.
