Alex Kapranos Quotes
You really only understand whether a song's good or not when you properly play it out in public for the first time.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.
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If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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Antonio Berardi is one of my good friends.
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At first, I was hesitant when it came to giving autographs, thinking that I am not even worth giving one. But slowly I got over that phase.
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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The difference between Tinted Windows and Hanson shows is a lot of just repertoire. Hanson has been a band for years - we have a lot of songs to pull from and it's a different dynamic - a common kind of thread. With Tinted Windows - it's kind of a little like 'hey, we're this new band.'
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The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.
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In the year 3000, everything will be instant.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
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Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.
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I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
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Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.
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When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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My eldest sister Beth is a doctor who studied at Harvard and Columbia and played basketball for Harvard. She set the athletic and academic standard for the rest of us to follow.
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Actually, if my business was legitimate, I would deduct a substantial percentage for depreciation of my body.
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I ran for public office to do something good.
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Now shall my inward joys arise, And burst into a song; Almighty love inspires my heart, And pleasure tunes my tongue.
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You really only understand whether a song's good or not when you properly play it out in public for the first time.
