Alex Kapranos Quotes
I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.
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I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.
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It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
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By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.
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College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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The concept of emergent gameplay is really exciting. That's when players are really crafting their own experience. So if you're clever and creative, you can do things that even developers of the game didn't know were possible.
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I must be honest here; I don't think there's such a thing as 'unconventional' when it comes to YA. YA readers are the most open-minded in the literary world. They'll read anything.
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Any reaction is better than none.
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The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.
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In order to maintain that fire for acting and capture its essence, you can't let yourself be concerned with what people have to say about you. You just can't.
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As an Ambassador for PSI and a supporter of Nothing But Nets, I have met individuals around the world who are lending their ideas, their voices, and their time to improve their communities and the world at large. And there are millions more that I have not met.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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In the future, when people look back at the early days of Bitcoin, they'll say, 'It was so obvious that the ability to move money anywhere, instantly, at near-zero cost would be a huge success.
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That's why I believe that we must never fail to affirm that we are indeed one nation under God.
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My sister Kwan believes she has yin eyes. She sees those who have died and now dwell in the World of Yin, ghosts who leave the mists just to visit her kitchen on Balboa Street in San Francisco. 'Libby-ah,' she'll say to me. 'Guess who I see yesterday, you guess.' And I don't have to guess that she's talking about someone dead.
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Over the years, I've heard pop artists do some Christmas songs, and I haven't fully cared for them. They weren't the traditional Christmas music that I was raised on and love. Thinking of that, I wanted to make my songs mimic the classic Christmas songs.
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I'm a believer in home-made recipes and concoctions, so I stick to natural or herbal products as much as I can. I also meditate regularly to de-stress.
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For Israel to retain its amazing position as the largest concentration of high tech after Silicon Valley, we need more engineers and mathematicians. We have too many lawyers.
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I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.
