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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People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids.
Gail Devers -
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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One of the biggest reasons I like coaching college ball is the kids. I feel I can impact players' lives. I like the fact that they're student-athletes. I like to see those kids graduate.
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Thumbs up to the buxom woman. Size zero is boring!
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I can think about what [Mahatma] Gandhi said or [Martin Luther] King said about violence begetting violence, and still be true to my job by asking myself the question whenever we're confronted with a situation where some may be arguing for military action: Will this actually result in America being safer, or the most lives being saved?
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The wisest thing you'll ever do in this life is to draw close to God and to seek Him with all your heart.
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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.
