Nicholas James Murphy (Chet Faker) Quotes

I just love a slow groove. I feel so comfortable in it. But I listen to a lot of fast music, a lot of techno and house.

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• I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'

  

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• In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.

  

  Rachel Platten
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  • World
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• Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.

  

  Irving Babbitt
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  • Happiness
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• The Cold War did end in the victory of one side and in the defeat of the other. This reality cannot be denied, despite the understandable sensitivities that such a conclusion provokes among the tenderhearted in the West and some of the former leaders of the defeated side.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
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• I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.

  

  Parker Posey
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• I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.

  

  Dan Fogler
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• By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.

  

  Samuel Chase
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• It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • America
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• I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.

  

  Raine Maida
  • Great
  • Feeling
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• College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.

  

  Ossie Davis
  • You
  • College
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• I never really did any disco dancing.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Never
  • Dancing
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• Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.

  

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• When you live in L.A., it is easy to stay fit, as the weather is amazing.

  

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• I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Me
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• I play as I feel.

  

  Oscar Peterson
  • Play
  • Feel
  • I Feel

• A sociopath doesn't warm up their environment, doesn't make it cozy. They don't have to; when they're not performing, when they're not manipulating, when they're all alone, there's nothing.

  

  Walter Kirn
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• I was a very rotund child with short hair, and for some reason, I always had black ballet shoes. I was like the Wednesday Addams of ballet.

  

  Felicity Jones
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• In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.

  

  Pat Robertson
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• I always give the encore over to chaos, so people can yell out requests and I can hack my way through a song that I don't really know anymore.

  

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• The Grateful Dead were an influence on our music but they weren't by a long shot the biggest influence.

  

  Jon Fishman
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• You know that in order to copyright material somebody has to write it down for you. Any piece of recorded material has to be scored in order for it to be copyrighted. I've seen the scores of my things and they don't resemble the music in any way. If you give them to somebody who has never heard the music and say, "What does this sound like to you?" they'll play you something that has no relationship with the music it derives from. Notation simply isn't adequate.

  

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• Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

  

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• No changing of place at a hundred miles an hour will make us one whit stronger, or happier, or wiser. There was always more in the world than man could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace. It does a bullet no good to go fast; and a man, if he be truly a man, no harm to go slow; for his glory is not at all in going, but in being.

  

  John Ruskin
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  • Wise
  • Glory

• I just love a slow groove. I feel so comfortable in it. But I listen to a lot of fast music, a lot of techno and house.

  

  Nicholas James Murphy
  • Music
  • House