Alex Kapranos Quotes
Music should be universal. My life perspective, my lifestyle - I'm not going to impose that on the people that listen to my music. That's kind of a perverse form of snobbery I like to reject.Alex Kapranos Franz Ferdinand
Quotes to Explore
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When you've done a show that's as successful as 'Lovejoy' was, it hangs around for a few years, and people know you from it. I escaped the shadow when I stopped 'Lovejoy' by not doing any television for four years.
Ian McShane -
I always wear the same thing at home. I can't be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.
Barbra Streisand -
Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.
Frances Beinecke -
Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
Samuel Beckett -
The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.
Tamsin Egerton -
The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
Cam Gigandet -
No matter what his crimes were, Alton Sterling did not deserve to be executed for them. Look, guys, the punishment for resisting arrest shouldn't be death. The punishment for selling bootleg CDs shouldn't be death. The punishment for having a gun in an open-carry state shouldn't be death. The punishment for being a black man shouldn't be death.
Larry Wilmore -
You know how in every heist movie they get past the security cameras that show the hallway leading to the diamonds by jamming the screens with a fake signal of everything looking safe and quiet? Usually a guard coughs so they don't notice the blip from switching to the bogus feed.
Adam McKay -
I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.
Salman Rushdie -
I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.
Gary Lineker -
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
W. Somerset Maugham
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I never really did any disco dancing.
Barry Gibb Bee Gees -
I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
Fiona Apple -
People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
Randy Pausch -
The Tower of David is important for Israel's heritage and existence because it is more than a tower, it is a symbol. It is more important than the Azrieli Towers.
Yair Lapid -
Wuxia is a fantasy world exists in everyone's mind.
Zhang Yimou
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I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment.
Gary Ross -
I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.
Randy Travis -
My mother was an opera singer and my grandmother a concert pianist, and they only liked classical music. If I put on a pop record, they would tell me to turn it off, so I only listen to classical.
Amanda Eliasch -
Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
Ted Engstrom -
When someone says, 'Shut up, farmer,' it hurts. It's difficult to explain, but it hurts.
Brunello Cucinelli -
Music should be universal. My life perspective, my lifestyle - I'm not going to impose that on the people that listen to my music. That's kind of a perverse form of snobbery I like to reject.
Alex Kapranos Franz Ferdinand