James Murphy Quotes
Punk rock, to me, was always outsiderness. When I first saw large-group-scene punk rock, I was repelled by it, because there were way too many people who agreed with each other.

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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.
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I've worked with a lot of really great actors, but it's not very often that you all bond so easily.
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To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.
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I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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When I was younger, I thought about retiring.
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The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
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I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
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Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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I'm funny on camera sometimes. In life, once in a while. Once in a while.
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I own nothing; I just stay with friends all over the country.
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I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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I'd love to do 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' again - especially on Broadway.
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Punk rock, to me, was always outsiderness. When I first saw large-group-scene punk rock, I was repelled by it, because there were way too many people who agreed with each other.