James Murphy Quotes
I have an interest in everything, but I don't have an interest in starting new careers.
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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
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When you say to Israelis, 'European boycott,' they think it means that this year they won't get Camembert cheese on time... That is not the case.
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I always had a dream to play for India but I never let it put pressure on me.
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I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.
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Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun. My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what's me.
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I tend to not watch things that are current. And then if everybody swears it's amazing then I'll like watch the whole series in a weekend.
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I like to read novels where the author seems knowledgeable, like someone you know you could walk calmly next to through a complicated situation, and he or she would be alive to its meaning and ironies. And you wouldn't even have to mention them out loud to each other.
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Walt Disney got away with portraying me in the light that they were portraying me in. I have always been a fighter, so... But I have no regrets, man. It's just like God brought me through the drugs, I know he'll bring me through this.
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The stars that have most glory have no rest.
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I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power.
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Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.
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Handsome, thin, sophisticated men often fall madly in love with larger women, we just never see it on TV.
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Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear.
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p. 63
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…enjoyed Dravidian transports.
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…the Linux philosophy is 'laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong one. 'Do it yourself'. That's it.
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There is a 60‑40 chance of no-deal Brexit.
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The next flag they plant will be all white, and it'll be surrender.
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People say that you should not micro-optimize. But if what you love is micro-optimization... that's what you should do.
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The whole joy of writing comes from the opportunity to go over it and make it good, one way or another.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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The more we love our earth, the more we love our life.
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When we lose sight of God we become hard and dogmatic. We hurl our own petitions at God's throne and dictate to Him as to what we wish Him to do. We do not worship God, nor do we seek to form the mind of Christ. If we are hard towards God, we will become hard towards other people.
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I have an interest in everything, but I don't have an interest in starting new careers.
