Alex Turner Quotes

I get nervous about gigs sometimes, but not with records - I always get excited.

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• When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Bad
  • Childhood
  • Memories

• Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.

  

  Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
  • Country
  • Place
  • Changes

• I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Different
  • Animal
  • Sick

• 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
  • Moral
  • Rich
  • Instincts

• What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Work
  • Party
  • Eye

• I was into sports and swimming as a kid and didn't spend a whole lot of time sitting down. I was a gymnast.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Time
  • Sports
  • Swimming

• In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Small
  • Day
  • River

• Unsurprisingly, the poll-takers don't talk a lot in public about the ignorance of the electorate on political and public policy matters. And the politicians are not going to disclose the, let's say, limited body of knowledge in their constituencies. You don't get elected calling your voters airheads.

  

  Jack Germond
  • Political
  • Knowledge
  • Body

• It's been such a group effort. When you're a new band and you have limited resources, you end up getting people that are there because they love what you do, and that's great.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • People
  • Great
  • Effort

• I am overwhelmed with gratitude, and my heart is full. 'American Sniper' has broken records, which follows such an honest path of Chris's life.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Life
  • Heart
  • American

• Of course, a law that is selectively used is in one aspect even worse than a law that is generally used because it puts a lot of power in individuals' hands and makes government a rule, not of laws, but of people.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • People
  • Power
  • Law

• Meyer and I have a bit in common because we're both left-handed. I think it's great that he seeks out that advice because he's not too cool or too uncomfortable to ask for it.

  

  Barry Zito
  • Great
  • Cool
  • Advice

• I've had times where I've joked, like, 'I'm going to move to Vermont and become a painter.' And sometimes that joke felt like, 'Oh that's a good idea.' But it was only, like, a daydream for a moment to, like, escape.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Good
  • Sometimes
  • Moment

• If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Age
  • Change
  • Environment

• I'm not really into rap.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Rap
  • Really

• I'd love to continue my career in Hollywood - I'd love to do another action film, or a romantic comedy, or horror. I love horror films.

  

  Rain
  • Career
  • Comedy
  • Romantic

• Most of the time I spend looking for the 25th hour in the day, the ninth day in the week, the 32nd day in the month and the 367th, eighth or 70th day in the year because I feel I have a very rich life.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Life
  • Time
  • Day

• Hopping the fence or wading the Rio Grande River isn't part of America's immigration process.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • America
  • Process
  • Immigration

• We are now confronted with the necessity of remedying the remedies.

  

  E. W. Howe

• The political revolution is not about one election or one candidate. It is about transforming America and continuing the fight for economic, social, racial and environmental justice. We have to continue to work together to advance the progressive future we all support.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • Work
  • America
  • Together

• The air in a man's lungs 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms, so that sooner or later every one of us breathes an atom that has been breathed before by anyone you can think of who has ever lived - Michelangelo or George Washington or Moses.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Air

• I can see both sides of term limits, and I think, in different positions, term limits make more sense than in some others.

  

  Caroline Kennedy
  • Different

• Micro satellites, about the size of a loaf of bread, are going to be going into space more and more.

  

  Jim Cantrell
  • Space

• I get nervous about gigs sometimes, but not with records - I always get excited.

  

  Alex Turner