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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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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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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Every role is a potential lover. I ask: Are they someone I want to wake up to in the morning and go to bed with at night? Do they question my assumptions about life? Consume me to distraction? Make my cry, then clown to make me laugh again? If I say yes, then it's all I need.
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When people are free to choose, they choose freedom.
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...he feels a stifling uselessness in things, a kind of atomic decay whereby the precious glowing present turns, with each tick of the clock, into the leaden slag of history.
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Part of our job as human beings is to share our knowledge and share the things we've learned. So we can either save people from making the same mistakes, or give them hope.
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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.
