Alex Kapranos Quotes

I didn't grasp the basic principle of being a promoter, which was: Put on music but also generate an income. I was on the dole most of the time.

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• There isn't any amount of money that could tempt me to promote something that I didn't believe in.

  

  Zoe Sugg
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• I don't know how you make decisions in your life, but I weigh lots of things, and it's not always the purest of things for why I take a job or do this. I always try to think of the many different factors in my life, and not one is pure greed. One is pure quality of life.

  

  J. C. Chandor
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• With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?

  

  Felix Dennis
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• It is not only our duty but our moral obligation to break from the oppression of debt. We must rise above the political considerations and do what is right for the future of our nation.

  

  Dan Coats
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• If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.

  

  Jack Ma
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• I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
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• Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.

  

  E. O. Wilson
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• Of course, there can be serious injustices within free societies.

  

  Natan Sharansky
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• As Governor, I've worked to solve problems the New Hampshire way - bringing together Democrats, Republicans and Independents to help hard-working Granite Staters adapt to our changing economy so that everyone has the opportunity to get ahead and stay ahead.

  

  Maggie Hassan
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• A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
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• If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!

  

  Kate Beckinsale
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• Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.

  

  Frances McDormand
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• Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.

  

  Omar N. Bradley
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• I didn't particularly like being objectified.

  

  L'Wren Scott
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• Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.

  

  Rachel Cusk
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• Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

  

  Victor Hugo
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• Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.

  

  Ragnar Frisch
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• My mom had a produce business in in Oxnard, and we used to take these long trips to talk to farmers and different distributors. She'd take us with her after picking us up from school, and she'd be blasting all this old soul music and R&B. I knew all those O'Jays songs before I knew Snoop or Dre or Tupac.

  

  Anderson Paak
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• I always bring cash for tips, and I never give less than $20. I used to work in a smoothie shop, so I know the value of a tip.

  

  Megan Fox
  • Work
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• I don't really care that much about genre labels. I tend to write across a variety of different genres.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Different

• So, it happened pretty fast, but, it is causing a lot of stir, which thrills me that people still remember the songs.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • People
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• I don't think it's an artist's responsibility to be political all the time. I think your first responsibility as an artist is to make music that people will listen to and enjoy. However, I think that when you are able to say something that is moving and put it in a great song, then that is even better.

  

  John Roger Stephens
  • People
  • Time
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• I didn't grasp the basic principle of being a promoter, which was: Put on music but also generate an income. I was on the dole most of the time.

  

  Alex Kapranos Franz Ferdinand
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