"It's easy to be lazy when there's food lying around backstage or there's a fast-food joint a couple blocks away. But if you walk a little further, ask around a bit, of course there are exciting things to discover."

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Source : "Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand". Interview With Andy Battaglia, music.avclub.com. February 14, 2007.

Alex Kapranos

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“For a decade Americans have been steeped in the rhetoric of "zero tolerance" and the faith that virtually all problems from drug addiction to lousy teaching can be solved by pouring on the punishment. Even without a Commander in Chief who pledges to rid the world of evildoers, smoke them out of their holes and the like, we would be vulnerable to the temptation to brush aside frustrating complexities and relieve intolerable fear (at least for the moment) by settling on one or more scapegoats to crush. To imagine that trauma casts out fantasy is a dangerous mistake.”

Source : "Dreaming of War". "The Nation", October 15, 2001.
“You know the FA's the richest football association in the world? Well, I shouldn't say that. They're not the richest at all. What they do is they have the biggest turnover in the world with £325m.”

Source : Source: www.dailymail.co.uk
“Magellan went around the world in 1521, which is not too many strokes when you consider the distance.”
“To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's.”
“Just because people can express themselves through their art doesn't mean they are great communicators in person.”
“The Good News does not hinge on words like do or change but on the powerless, irrelevant, and frightening words like belief and faith.”

Source : Mark Galli (2011). “Chaos and Grace: Discovering the Liberating Work of the Holy Spirit”, p.122, Baker Books
“When I look back at high school, or college, or when I was getting married, it's the girlfriends I had then that give substance and joy to that point in my life.”

Source : Source: happyeverafter.usatoday.com
“Finally, strategy must have continuity. It can't be constantly reinvented.”

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