Alex Turner Quotes

I'm not really one for collaborations, to be quite honest.

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• I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Women
  • Book
  • Creativity

• He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Heart
  • Help
  • Right

• I have some girls who I look back on and I think, 'Wow, they were really horrible to me.' I would love an apology from a few girls, but whatever. I'm not holding any grudges. I'm over it.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Think
  • Girls
  • Horrible

• Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.

  

  Harold Washington
  • American
  • History
  • Democracy

• I didn't really want to be a teacher, but there was nothing else I could be. Most of those who went to the university became teachers. It was just the racial restriction on Africans.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Want
  • Teacher
  • Racial

• I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Work
  • Foreign
  • Stunts

• Many of depression's symptoms - exhaustion, insomnia, nausea, headaches, weight loss, weight gain - are physical ailments.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Depression
  • Loss
  • Insomnia

• Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Long
  • Live
  • Why

• It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me – I spoke with him many times – that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Want
  • Fear
  • See

• From a pretty early age, my mother realized that I was a little bit more gifted and talented than my own age group. So, she moved me over to play with the boys' travel soccer team when I was about 11 years old.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • She
  • Mother
  • Age

• Mum doesn't like it when I mention that Dad's a better cook than her. He was born in Spain and spent eight years in Portugal and is exceptional at lots of cuisines.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Dad
  • Years
  • Better

• I am a black man inside and outside and you are white men on the outside, but inside, you are Africans like me.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • Men
  • Man
  • Black

• I'm not sure there are too many people who write what I write.

  

  L. E. Modesitt
  • People
  • Write
  • Sure

• I'm fiercely protective of my privacy.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Privacy
  • Protective

• In 1999, I just came out of putting out the song 'Vivrant Thing' and 'Breathe and Stop' off the 'Amplified' album. Clive Davis signed me to Arista.

  

  Q-Tip
  • Song
  • Me
  • Stop

• Seattle sucks. New York and Chicago are real cities. Seattle is Dubuque, Iowa, putting on airs. People here think Seattle is Paris... it ain't. I've been to Paris, and this place isn't Paris.

  

  Dan Savage
  • People
  • Real
  • Chicago

• on global warming There's a group of people who, a little while ago, were saying, 'It's not happening.' That same group of people are now saying, 'Alright, it is happening, but it's not our fault.' That's a very dodgy position to be in. That's like saying, 'I'm not having an affair, and, anyway, she seduced me'.

  

  Marcus Brigstocke
  • People
  • She

• A lot of people still like Solaris, but I'm in active competition with them, and so I hope they die.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • People
  • Hope
  • Die

• To gain a better understanding, I'm just trying to make it real/reel. Like a fisherman, Pon De River fam. I Pon My Bank, deposit my thoughts. Till my mind draws a blank and I withdraw from checking. I'll leave that with ya'll for a second...

  

  Wasalu Muhammad Jaco
  • Mind
  • Real
  • Trying

• Sometimes I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unlovable in it, for all of it is part of me.

  

  Ralph Ellison

• I did my undergrad at Florida State, got a Bachelor's, and then I got my Masters in Acting at NYU. So I've spent a lot of time in the classroom.

  

  Andre Holland
  • Time

• This was always the problem with my mother and me, I suddenly realized. There were so many things we thought we agreed on, but anythign can have two meanings. Like sides of a coin, it just matters how it falls.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Mother
  • Problem
  • Fall

• Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .

  

  William Howard Taft
  • Important
  • Liberty
  • Constitution

• I'm not really one for collaborations, to be quite honest.

  

  Alex Turner