Alex Kapranos Quotes
You can't write for the cultural environment - if you do that, by the time it comes out, that cultural environment has passed. You have to be aiming for something that's original - that's the only way you can have any kind of impact.
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I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.
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I don't know what's going to happen in life, so I don't think it's fair that I know what's going to happen in 'Homeland.'
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I was a little too young to be a hippie.
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We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other.
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I don't think anybody's really been successful with theorizing about value or creating a price theory.
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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
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I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down.
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We're now able to show that the words of comfort trigger biological reactions which are the very things that you want, and you can use drugs to get there, or you can use words of comfort to get there, which would make your drugs so much more effective.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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It's good just to laugh sometimes, and if it comes out of some truth, it's even stronger.
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I've always listened to and loved country music ever since I was a kid.
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What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
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The Spanish and the American audiences are lunatics. They are very passionate and, like the Irish, they don't have as many inhibitions. If you are playing somewhere like Austria or Sweden, it takes them a little while to come out of themselves.
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I'm driven by history and our past. That's why I work in gold. It's in your veins. We've been lusting after gold since the beginning of time. God, glory, and gold.
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I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.
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I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.
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No one was interested in picking up a midlist series, even though I have a decent fanbase and respectable numbers.
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I wholeheartedly rejected anything remotely feminine but was not enthusiastic about anything masculine, either. I did not want to cook and have babies, and I did not want to be an engineer or a baseball player or a soldier or a politician or any of the myriad careers open mostly or solely to men. I wanted to be a poet.
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If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.
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The best and safest way of philosophising seems to be, first to enquire diligently into the properties of things, and to establish those properties by experiences [experiments] and then to proceed slowly to hypotheses for the explanation of them. For hypotheses should be employed only in explaining the properties of things, but not assumed in determining them; unless so far as they may furnish experiments.
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We should put in place a simple, straightforward and accessible way for parents of Dreamers and others with a history of service and contributions to their community to make their case and to be eligible for the same deferred action as their children.
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Grace is necessary to salvation, free will equally so - but grace in order to give salvation, free will in order to receive it.
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You can't write for the cultural environment - if you do that, by the time it comes out, that cultural environment has passed. You have to be aiming for something that's original - that's the only way you can have any kind of impact.
