Alex Kapranos Quotes

Although they might not admit it, I think girls are very aware of the impact that they're having. But they never feel it themselves, and it's impossible to explain. It's like trying to tell a blind person what yellow is.

Alex Kapranos

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YellowImpossibleThinkBlindImpact

My dad had the greatest admiration for MacArthur when they were working together in Washington before the Philippines. And Dad used to talk with absolute awe about MacArthur's brain.

John Eisenhower

Working TogetherTogetherBrainTalk

I was a very driven young person.

Rutina Wesley

PersonYoungDrivenVery

Standups have all the talk shows, but you never see a sketch group on a talk show. Even on so-called variety shows, if you do see a sketch group or character, it's written specifically for that variety show and usually written around the host of the show or a celebrity.

Matt Besser

CharacterYouGroupSketchTalkSee

The left controls academia, the culture, and the news media.

Monica Crowley

CultureMediaNewsLeftAcademia

Of course we had the best possible classical education, which gave us a very strong foundation and tradition. But we also learned a lot by collaborating with different pop/rock artists and especially by recording and working in the studio.

Luka Sulic

EducationBestFoundationStrongUs

A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always because he is not ourself, and has something in him which it is impossible for us to fathom. If it were not so, friendship would lose its chief zest.

Lucy Larcom

FriendshipFriendImpossibleLoseUs

We are tired out in making complaints and getting no redress.

Joseph Brant

TiredOutMakingRedressComplaints

You don't love hockey for the scores, you love hockey for the fights, right?

DeAngelo Williams

LoveHockeyYouRightFightsScores

I loved Katrina and the Waves.

Bonnie Tyler

WavesLovedKatrina

A lot of groups spend their whole cultural and aesthetic identity trying to move away from Africa, which I think is a mistake. One of the reasons I love Cuba and cultures like that is because they're not trying to move away from their African roots, they're trying to embrace them. That's part of the culture.

Arturo O'Farrill

LoveCultureMistakeIdentityRoots

You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of covert, you know, communal politics which the Congress has never been shy of indulging in.

Arundhati Roy

PoliticsYouHypocrisyKnowShySee

We just set it up and recorded it the way we played it. But that was the way we played it then.

Alice Cooper

WayUpJustSetPlayedThen

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