Alex Turner Quotes
The idea that talent is directly proportional to your trophy cabinet is one I oppose.
Alex Turner
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All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world.
Victor Cousin
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
Navjot Singh Sidhu
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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
Halsey
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My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.
Page McConnell
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
Lady Gaga
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One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.
Walter Dean Myers
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I hated the sight on TV of big, clumsy, lumbering heavyweights plodding, stalking each other like two Frankenstein monsters, clinging, slugging toe to toe. I knew I could do it better ... circle, dance, shuffle, hit and move ... make an art out of it.
Muhammad Ali
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And he said that he wrote the Bond character based on the character of David Niven. That's how he saw Bond.
Val Guest
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In the West, we avoid painful encounters with art by trivialising it, or by familiarising it. Our present obsession with the past has the double advantage of making new work seem raw and rough compared to the cosy patina of tradition, whilst refusing tradition its vital connection to what is happening now.
Jeanette Winterson
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The idea that talent is directly proportional to your trophy cabinet is one I oppose.
Alex Turner
