James Murphy Quotes
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Since my father was a superstar, without me knowing it, I became a child star, as my father's entire fan base liked me, and I can't thank my father enough for this, as it was so effortless.
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The American school system's a little warped, so anyone can get a degree if they have a little money.
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There are times where I am trying to make the big play before I even catch the football.
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I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.
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It got a little boring I guess, playing the same note over and over.
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I am a man who is noble. I have a good heart, but at the same time, I'm a little malicioso. There's no way of hiding that side.
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We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity.
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If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a prince, and he says, 'To be or not to be.'"
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Villains never know they are villains in a picture so I play this like I'm the nicest guy in the world.
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Father or stepfather – those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything.
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I am what I am. I'm not going to get plastic surgery. I had this discussion with my younger son. We were at a dermatologist, and this dermatologist suggested to me that I wanted to avoid wrinkles. Those wrinkles show that I have laughed a lot in my life, why should I want to erase that? Why would I erase the traces of my life which I loved?
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I feel 80% of my life is completely normal.
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This simple truth is the essence of my message to Muslims throughout the world: know who you are, who you want to be, and start talking and working with whom you are not. Find common values and build with fellow citizens a society based on diversity and equality.
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I came up in a time when Springsteen, the Stones, Dylan, and the Beatles were still dominant. For every magazine cover with a new band, there were five covers with one of those guys.
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Hollywood typecast me as the secretary. I could have worked as the quirky secretary for the rest of my life, but I decided not to do that.
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Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we don't teach the confessions and doctrine.
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I am a passionate admire of Sappho, but that has to be one of the stupidest sentences I have ever seen in a scholarly book.
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You can’t change what you don’t understand.
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Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect marriage of two great American institutions.
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There is a definite cost to doing nothing.
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What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.
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Social justice is a cancer. Social justice means you are ruled by whatever the mob does. What social justice does is destroy individual responsibility.
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He Astaire was not a sexual animal, but he made his partners look so extraordinarily related to him.
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You can't be afraid to embarrass yourself sometimes.
