Nicholas James Murphy (Chet Faker) Quotes
I think you can move to everything, but with some music, you just want to sit still. That's me, anyway.
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Women are very intelligent and not appreciated. We try to pretend that we are not clever, and it's such a pity that we can't show how clever we are.
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It's impossible for China to keep 10 to 15% growth annually. The economy needed to slow down, and we have to learn to slow down.
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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
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Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.
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Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life.
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Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.
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When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
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It doesn't matter if people perceive me as being a little strange. I think overall, even when I am on stage, when people see me, I am setting an example.
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College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.
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My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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I'm not going to say what was being used in the clubhouse; whatever happens in the clubhouse stays in the clubhouse. But it was not like it was in your face.
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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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In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.
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In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
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What I wear is constantly evolving. I am really big on comfortable clothes. I love soft, loose-fitting clothing that has some edge or something new/fresh to it.
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It is such a social thing, laughing. Two thousand people in a room laughing is such a great buzz and they tend to laugh much more in a group.
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Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and the we'll need no other light.
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I'm very private in person. I'm very sensitive and shy with men individually. But when I'm talking, maybe there's this other channel or this other side and other way of working in my mind, and I convert and become carefree.
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Ah! there is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
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Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question."
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I think you can move to everything, but with some music, you just want to sit still. That's me, anyway.
