James Murphy Quotes
After being in a 'professional rock ensemble,' there's a great joy in making music with friends, without any release plan.
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Life in California is beautiful.
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It's impossible for China to keep 10 to 15% growth annually. The economy needed to slow down, and we have to learn to slow down.
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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I'm doing my best to mindfully raise my son to feel safe and encouraged to express himself.
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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You know how in every heist movie they get past the security cameras that show the hallway leading to the diamonds by jamming the screens with a fake signal of everything looking safe and quiet? Usually a guard coughs so they don't notice the blip from switching to the bogus feed.
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In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
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I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.
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I had 'Push' and 'The Paperboy' next to my bed for many years. Those are some of the great, great novels.
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As you fall in love with friends, you want to spend more and more time with each other.
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We need more leaders speaking up for minority groups who have been marginalized and attacked.
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'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.
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After being in a 'professional rock ensemble,' there's a great joy in making music with friends, without any release plan.
