Alex Kapranos Quotes
Ideally, musicians belong outside the Establishment. When they cross that line, it's like something in them has died.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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I think people like musicals. And when done with a modern comedic sensibility, musical comedy can be the most efficient delivery of both storytelling and jokes.
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There are two kinds of ham: raw and cooked. Raw ham is cured with salt and/or smoke over time; cooked ham is boiled. Every culture that makes ham has its own unique and various methods.
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My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.
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The army should go back to their assigned duties, and police should take the responsibility of fighting the cartels.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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You know, rock stardom... I have a hard time discussing that because I don't really accept it. It's not really that tangible. What's really bizarre is how it's used as a thing - you know, 'He's the rock star of politics,' 'He's the rock star of quarterbacks' - like it's the greatest thing in the world.
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You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don't do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban tried it. You need to know your personal brand and stay true to it.
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My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!
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I've always been a very prolific writer.
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To be the organization that we want to be, we have to have a place to play.
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Growing up, I always wanted to sing.
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I get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!
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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.
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If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.
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They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extravagance... But the truth will prevail.
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I have no personal ambitions. I consider it a great privilege to have been given an opportunity to serve, through the Congress party, the people of India. I think that itself is a great reward. I have no personal ambitions in that regard.
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If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?
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Metaphor is awkward, but emotion, by its nature, leaves you no more scalable approach.
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I expect of abstraction as much as what imagery does for me... to carry meaning.
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If I ever write a book, it will be called 'Bottle Blonde.'
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Consider this point. It is a main point of true wisdom. Whenever there is an execution of purpose, there must be an agent.
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It cannot be right to be the slave of one's household gods, and I protest that if my furniture ever annoyed me by wanting to be dusted when I wanted to be doing something else, and there was no one to do the dusting for me, I would cast it all into the nearest bonfire and sit and warm my toes at the flames with great contentment, triumphantly selling my dusters to the very next pedlar who was weak enough to buy them.
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Ideally, musicians belong outside the Establishment. When they cross that line, it's like something in them has died.
