Nicholas James Murphy (Chet Faker) Quotes

I second guess everything I do musically, and I often could spend hours on, say, one snare sound.

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• As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Dead
  • Ghost
  • Civil

• We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Israel
  • Dealing
  • Treachery

• I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Guy

• I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Think
  • Way
  • Resignation

• I was the first one to allow a projectile to come off of the stage and into the audience. And I kind of take responsibility for the mosh pit.

  

  Gallagher
  • Responsibility
  • Audience

• In India, therapy is not part of the culture; it has not become such a big need.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Culture
  • Need
  • Therapy

• I know that often times a lot of people who work in music, whether they be labels and so on or even artists, want personal recognition. We want to be recognized for something, for what we did. I'd rather my song be recognized for what it's doing and that's important. It's not so important how many people know me.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicious competitor, and you never hate a man you respect. I don't like Rod Laver because he's such a vicious competitor, but I don't dislike him.

  

  Pancho Gonzales
  • Great
  • Man
  • Hate

• For better or worse, we have evolved for sure, but we've also maintained a certain core about who we are, which is we were raised on late '50s and early '60s rock n' roll and R&B, and you can always hear that throughout. And that's just always been who we were. As much as we've evolved, that's stayed the same.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Rock
  • Better
  • Same

• Sure, men like a challenge - but so do women. And nobody likes to be challenged all the time. I know plenty of long-standing happy couples who slept together right away, spent hours yakking on the phone, split checks down the middle, and lived together for years before the wedding.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Writing
  • Kids
  • Doing

• Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood.

  

  Patricia Hill Collins
  • Work
  • Important
  • Women

• We can't assign beliefs to people who don't have a voice to express them. And we can't assume what someone thinks.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • People
  • Voice
  • Someone

• I feel like being an artist and being an activist are separate things; I know some people who feel very differently.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • People
  • Know
  • Artist

• O meu passado é tudo quanto não consegui ser.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• The international community have to create pressure on Saleh. One, they have to establish an international commission so they can investigate the killing that is happening...Without that justice, and if they leave Saleh alone, there will be no security and peace, not only in Yemen and our region, but also around the world.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • World
  • Community
  • Peace

• The core of the person is what he or she loves, and that is bound up with what they worship - that insight recalibrates the radar for cultural analysis. The rituals and practices that form our loves spill out well beyond the sanctuary. Many secular liturgies are trying to get us to love some other kingdom and some other gods.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • Trying
  • Love
  • Worship

• I don't want to be a star. If you have to label me anything, I'm an actor - I guess. A journeyman actor. I think 'star' is what you call actors who can't act.

  

  Paul Muni
  • Actors
  • Stars
  • Labels

• My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Reason
  • Literature
  • Profession

• I'm trying to think of other ones. Oh, yeah, I'd say - somebody would buy something and we'd say, and because you are our hundredth customer today, you get a free paperback.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Today

• Now however, we have contraception and it's mostly reliable so you can have sex without that happening. So then you start vilifying the act of sex itself. I don't think Buddhism has ever done that necessarily, or at least I'm not aware of Buddhism taking the stance that Christianity often has which says that sex itself is a kind of evil act, which is a really weird idea.

  

  Brad Warner
  • Sex
  • Idea
  • Christianity

• I second guess everything I do musically, and I often could spend hours on, say, one snare sound.

  

  Nicholas James Murphy