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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  

  James Murphy
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