Alex Quotes

There's a difference between expectations and aspirations.

People don't get angry about the half a million dead Iraqis from the sanctions.

We are all experts in our own little niches.

I'm not on drugs, I'm just weird.

Gianfranco Zola once sent Gary Pallister the wrong way to such an extent that he needed a ticket to get back in.

I do all this alone, everything I achieve, I achieve alone, because it's my head I'm locked into, and I share this space with nobody but myself.

I do believe in fate.

I wish I had some interesting stories about living in L.A., but mostly I just do my work and then go home.

Jews lie as reflexively and unthinkingly as humans breathe.

You can have fun, respect the game and also play it hard. When you have that combination, you're going to put yourself in a position to be successful.

Maybe we judge people too much by their looks because it's easier than seeing what's really important.

As in the piling up of hypothetical alternatives, creative accidents follow the law of probabilities the more we fish, the more likely we are to get a strike.

Everybody has a high point and a lot goes into that: timing, situation, general consciousness.

Songwriters always reminded me of that kid at school who would go around with his guitar, like, "Yeah, songwritin' man," looking wistful. That wasn't me - those kinds of people put me off.

My life is what it is, and I can't change it. I can change the future, but I can't do anything about the past.

Paint faster than you can think.

What's in front of me is what's most interesting.

Sometimes you gotta laugh through the tears, smile through the pain so that you can live through the sorrow.

Urban retrofitting: creating different sorts of spaces and uses out of places that are already there.

Stop whining; start enjoying. And when you look back at the past, make sure you're smiling.

If you're going to go for 'it' you have a common thing you share with other artists; that's desperation. You jump out a window style-wise. Try to put it together before you hit the ground.

I don't use photographs because photographs don't give me the kind of information I need.

It's the ordinary things that seem important to me.

I'm confident that people will be able to relate to my music.

Arson, property destruction, burglary, and theft are 'acceptable crimes' when used for the animal cause.

The first step on the path to positive change is acknowledgement that change is necessary and possible. Open yourself to the possibility of seeing the world in a new way. What do you have to lose?

You usually want to get something out of a painting other than the ideas that you had in your head.

The first I heard of the beach was in Bangkok, on the Ko Sanh Road.

Each and every single one of you is beautiful. Believe in yourself!

With photography, I like to leave a lot of the story, even to myself.

Whites already know blacks are stupid, violent, destructive apelike creatures. That is why Whites move away from them -- always.

Radio was supposed to die in 1945, when TV came along. It turns out that radio grew and grew, and it's a bigger business today than it has ever been.

The one thing I always do is I always brush my teeth before I play. I don't know why.

Ideas are abundant. Practice giving your ideas away. If you hold onto ideas too tightly, you can convince people (and yourself) that you may not come up with any new ones

I think that's one of the reasons it's nice to leave out a lot; it can become a lot more personal to people if there is room for them to put their own experiential time track on it.

Appellate review is not a magic wand and we undermine public confidence in the judicial process when we make it look like it is.

I think most people when you say slavery tend to see a group of anonymous people pulling cotton sacks in great plantation fields, and that is largely true.

It is easier to tone down a wild idea than to think up a new one.

Imagination is the cornerstone of human endeavor.

You start with what you believe in. I believe in building a football club rather than building a football team.

Attack wins you games, defence wins you titles.

I think my influence on Donald Trump is way, way lower than what mainstream media has said.

Rock'n'roll will never go away completely because it's so fundamentally attractive.

When you leave the planet, you leave music behind.

I did keep a travel diary once and it was a big mistake. All I remember of that trip is what I bothered to write down.

Our lives depend on recognizing that human cloning, like all forms of 'playing God,' is a moral, life-promoting endeavor.

Observation capitalizes inspiration.

Everytime we've had a misstep, rather than freaking out and not being able to recover, we've always looked to what's the next thing to do.

You create a fearful culture where you spend a lot of time looking at where you screwed up.

To not apologize for the behavior of the players to another manager is unthinkable. It's a disgrace, but I don't expect Wenger to ever apologize...he's that type of person.