James Murphy Quotes
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My look is either very baroque or very Zen - everything in between makes me itch.
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I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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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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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.
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Only four secretaries of defense served longer than Robert M. Gates. Many others were as dedicated; many sacrificed a great deal. Alone among them all, however, Mr. Gates had the task of turning around two wars that the U.S. was losing.
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When I started 'CNN,' I made the decision to stay out of endorsing candidates, and let the doers make up their own minds about politics, that it wasn't going to come from me.
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Devotion, as it relates to the title of my memoir, means fidelity - as in fidelity to a person or a practice. I think it's certainly possible to feel devotion without having faith, at least in the religious sense of the word.
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A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.
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Syria is important because it lies at the heart of a region critical to U.S. security, a region that is home to friends and partners and one of our closest allies. It is important because the Syrian regime possesses stores of chemical weapons that they have recently used on a large scale and that we cannot allow to fall into terrorists' hands.
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I've always had an interest in sports across the board.
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In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy.
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I get a great high from writing.
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There are many kids in and out of baseball who think that just because they have some natural talent, they have the world by the tail.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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My parents were both born in Birmingham, Alabama, and come from large Catholic families with lots of Michaels, Marks, and Patricks, so they wanted to choose two names that I don't think you could find anywhere else in the family tree: Haley and Joel.
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There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
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I'm not a big fan of table reads or sitting around a table and reading a script. I'd rather do it on set and do it for real.
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I wanted to play this part: the goofy rock and roller who can't hang up his guitar when it's clear to everyone else that he should.
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CS: I always say there's a tribal element in a rock concert. There's a real back-and-forth thing that goes on between the audience and the performers.
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Netflix is something I watch.
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The problem with not having a camera is that one must trust the analysis of a reporter who's telling you what occurred in the courtroom. You have to take into consideration the filtering effect of that person's own biases.
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If I opened a record store, it wouldn't be all punk rock and esoterica.
