James Murphy Quotes

What we are as a live band is different to what we are on recordings, but they're both equal versions: they're both LCD Soundsystem, but in very different ways.

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• That's the joy of getting to be an actor - getting to play all kinds of different roles and showing so many different sides of yourself.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Different
  • Play
  • Joy

• One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • Years
  • More
  • Contentment

• Anytime you hear different things - whether it's trade rumors or people saying you're not living up to your complete potential - you're obviously going to get ticked off about that.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• For me, men and women are different. A man is genetically gifted to pull more than a woman. But at the same time, I don't consider women to be any less than men. In fact, I feel we are far more intelligent than them.

  

  Kajol
  • Time
  • Men
  • Different

• You have to work with the auto industry, the oil companies, you have to work to develop renewable fuel, whether it's solar or different kinds of fuel or whatever.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Work
  • Different
  • Oil

• We all live in the moment, and we often mistakenly believe that what is true today was true always. Not so in politics, and especially in Congressional elections.

  

  Larry J. Sabato
  • Believe
  • Live
  • True

• I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look like.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• I'm working on bridging the gap between mainstream famous and Internet famous. They're two different things, but eventually, social media will be the way to become a celebrity.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Different
  • Famous
  • Celebrity

• Our forefathers used to live longer and healthy lives.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Live
  • Healthy
  • Used

• We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Live
  • Humanity
  • Tree

• Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Different
  • Creative
  • Now

• The secret to longevity, as I see it, has less to do with diet, or even exercise, and more to do with the environment in which a person lives: social and physical. What do I mean by this? They live rewardingly inconvenient lives.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Live
  • Environment
  • Exercise

• People have different takes on clothes and what to wear and colors and all that stuff, so why make a big deal about uniformity? It took me a long time to grasp that particular concept, simply because I was coming from the James Brown thing. Again, I wouldn't trade that experience for anything.

  

  Maceo Parker
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• I don't believe in the so-called Latino explosion when it comes to movies. Jennifer Lopez doesn't have an accent. She grew up in New York speaking English, not Spanish. Her success is very important because she represents a different culture, but it doesn't help me.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Different

• What you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Song
  • You
  • Band

• Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment - a means to an end.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• As an actor, I travel around a lot and live in a lot of hotels, and many times I've been in a town where the only entertainment to be had is what you find in the hotel bar or lobby.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Live
  • Travel
  • Find

• As we know, all sports evolve tremendously, and our sport is no different. It's really not the same thing at all as it was in 1972. It's a different type of horse we're using. The style of riding is quite evolved, the way the courses are built, the materials used... it's virtually unrecognizable.

  

  Ian Millar
  • Different
  • Style
  • Sports

• Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.

  

  Tecumseh
  • Life
  • Live
  • Heart

• When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Nature
  • Soul
  • Curious

• My father was a Democrat.

  

  Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Father
  • Democrat

• We tread a fine line between taking ourselves seriously and being Spinal Tap.

  

  Bruce Dickinson Iron Maiden

• I honestly don't think about myself; it's more about my kids. They were both born in L.A., and they're like little beams of sun, little tornadoes, and they can't be in a confined space. And one of the things I love most about L.A. is the freedom there.

  

  Liberty Ross
  • Kids
  • Freedom
  • Space

• What we are as a live band is different to what we are on recordings, but they're both equal versions: they're both LCD Soundsystem, but in very different ways.

  

  James Murphy
  • Different
  • Live
  • Band