Nicholas James Murphy (Chet Faker) Quotes
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I've kept a journal since I was 15. And I feel like it's been crucial to who I've become and trying to maintain stuff, a sense of who I am just for myself and not for other people.
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When the dollar was separated entirely from gold in 1971, it ceased being the official IMF world currency and finally had to compete with other currencies... From that point forward, its value increasingly became discounted.
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I've been pretty lucky with neighbors. But back in 1998, I lived, like, literally next door to Wrigley Field in Chicago. And I had, like, 50,000 bad neighbors spread out over the course of one summer. I'm a diehard Cubs fan, but living right next to the ballpark, it's just - as you're trying to go to sleep, you can just, like, hear urination.
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No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.
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I'm not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I'm such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days.
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When I go home, all I wanna do is just sleep and eat.
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I need about three seats lengthwise to sleep on a plane. It's not easy for me to curl up.
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Some astronauts sleep in sort of beds - compartments that you can open up and crawl into and then close up, almost like a little bedroom.
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There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
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The only thing I really, really want is for the U.S. to win again. Just to win another team gold. And, of course I would really want to win an all-around gold.
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For some reason, we stopped getting gold stars at some age. It's time to bring them back.
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Some of my favorite pieces are from thrift shops. When I find something I really love, I live, work and sleep in it.
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I still sleep with my baby blanket.
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I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.
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Gold medals are made out of your sweat, blood and tears, and effort in the gym every day, and sacrificing a lot.
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A U.S. dollar is an IOU from the Federal Reserve Bank. It's a promissory note that doesn't actually promise anything. It's not backed by gold or silver.
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I'm always dissing Ray and making fun of him, talking about his money.
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I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.
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I couldn't sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker.
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The sleep of reason produces monsters.
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[Louis Armstrong] could play a trumpet like nobody else, then put it down and sing a song like no one else could.
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Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are ‘patches of Godlight’ in the woods of our experience.
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Sleep is getting to be like gold.
