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.Alex Kapranos Franz Ferdinand
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I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.
Eddie Marsan -
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.'
Mandy Patinkin -
I was a little too young to be a hippie.
Gale Norton -
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.
Ram Dass -
I don't think anybody's really been successful with theorizing about value or creating a price theory.
P. J. O'Rourke -
You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
Patrick Leahy
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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.
Young Buck -
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.
Abraham Verghese -
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
It's good just to laugh sometimes, and if it comes out of some truth, it's even stronger.
Randee Heller -
I've always listened to and loved country music ever since I was a kid.
Laura Bell Bundy -
What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
E. W. Howe
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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.
Imelda May -
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.
Waris Ahluwalia -
I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.
Orson Welles -
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.
Samuel de Champlain -
No one was interested in picking up a midlist series, even though I have a decent fanbase and respectable numbers.
J. A. Konrath -
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.
Pamela Dean
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What we assert, very often can become our reality. To some degree, everybody can try to shape and control their fate. Everybody picks an identity.
David O. Russell -
America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.
Ferdinand Mount -
An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other, to be able to deal with change in the environment.
Kevin Kelly -
The notion that a story has a message assumes that it can be reduced to a few abstract words, neatly summarized in a school or college examination paper or a brisk critical review.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
Theater has always been terrifying to me.
Merritt Wever -
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.
Alex Kapranos Franz Ferdinand