James Murphy Quotes
To me, the band is like one of my homes, in fact. It's not like, 'I've got to get out of this band. I've got to go home.' This band is home in a lot of ways. It's my closest friends; it's a place where I really feel comfortable and happy.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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I've been in more laps than a napkin.
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Though teenagers are generally very interested in sports, they must realise that education is the most important thing in their lives. They must find the right balance.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?
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Everybody dresses like a teenager. Everybody dyes their hair. Everybody is concerned about a smooth face.
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Habits change into character.
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Polenta is to northern Italy what bread is to Tuscany, what pasta is to Emilia-Romagna and what rice is to the Veneto: easy to make, hungry to absorb other flavours, and hugely versatile.
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I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world.
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Pain is the most private experience, but its causes, whether natural or man-made, demand public accounting.
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If it's a close election, then it's better for the Supreme Court to pick the president, whether or not he won the election. It's just insane on its face.
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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The fact is that when it comes to judgment as to what should be secret and what should not be secret, Julian Assange's judgment has been pretty good so far.
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I think it takes a lot of desire because I think a lot of people who've never written books don't know quite how hard it is to stick with, to put in the amount of time and just make the commitment to just sit there every day and do it while everybody else is out having fun.
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I played soccer when I was a kid. I started when I was 8 and played for 8 more years. I was pretty good. I used to train with Atletico Nacional, which is one of the most important teams in Colombia. I used to train every day.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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I don't think there's something inherently irreligious about comics.
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I was going to go back to college and become a math teacher.
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In the fall of 1943 we brought home our second son, whom we named Alexander.
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I have, like, two best friends, one that I grew up with who's not an actor, and one that is an actor that lives near me in Wales, and they're my friends. I don't have any other friends, really, in the industry. I have acquaintances and people that I will go out for coffee with.
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My style is not specific to the antebellum South, but it's heavily inspired by the Jim Crow era.
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To me, the band is like one of my homes, in fact. It's not like, 'I've got to get out of this band. I've got to go home.' This band is home in a lot of ways. It's my closest friends; it's a place where I really feel comfortable and happy.
