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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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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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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They're sheep. They like Bush enough to credit him with saving the nation after 9/11. Three thousand people get killed, and everybody thinks they're next on the list. The president comes along, and he's got his six-guns strapped on, and people think he's going to save them.
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Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.
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How many men I know who are earning dollars aplenty, but who are really earning little of what counts. They are so overwhelmingly engrossed in business that they get nothing from their dollars. The Juggernaut of dollar-making has crushed out of them every capacity for genuine enjoyment, every grace, every unselfish sentiment and instinct.
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I have this threadbare caftan from the '60s that I got at a vintage store years ago - it's basically a muumuu. My friends are astonished that I wear it, but I love it. It's this light fabric that just moves with me.
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There's really no rhyme or reason in our generation as to how things are supposed to work. I don't believe in the words supposed to. I believe in everybody having their own path and their own learning experience. To each his own.
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I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.
