James Murphy Quotes

Titles are relatively arbitrary to me; they take on meanings that aren't really my meanings. 'Sound Of Silver' was just, like, I made the studio silver, and I wanted the record to sound 'more silver.'

James Murphy

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• The tribal system from which the Celt never freed himself entirely was the curse of the Celtic race, predooming it to ruin.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Never
  • Race
  • Curse

• The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • World
  • Language
  • Natural

• I had seen a lot of music movies that celebrated music or that showed the kind of joys from playing music, which is a big part of it of course, and not something that I would want to deny.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Music
  • Want
  • Movies

• Everybody wants to defeat the defending champs.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Defeat
  • Wants
  • Defending

• I want to be the Joan of Arc of fashion. I want to be the link between the runway and the real woman.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Real
  • Want
  • Fashion

• I'm from a very small village in the middle of nowhere, four hours by airplane from Moscow. Yemanzhelinsk - you wouldn't find it on the map. Don't even try it. It's super, super tiny.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Small
  • Airplane
  • Village

• When media coverage sets up a binary opposition between 'the accuser' and 'the accused,' there is no longer a victim or even an alleged victim - a flesh and blood person who was harmed by the violent act of another.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Up
  • Blood
  • Media

• Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.

  

  Ted Shawn
  • Art
  • Dance
  • Ourselves

• All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers.

  

  Maimonides
  • Man
  • Person
  • Intellectual

• When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never seen a building over two stories high.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • God
  • Man
  • Stop

• I am a midfielder who is mainly involved in the defensive phases, even if I also like to help build moves - I would say that my foremost quality is my generosity.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Quality
  • Generosity
  • Defensive

• I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Writing
  • Politics
  • Sacrifice

• Any voting group has an interest that they want from politicians. That's why politicians have to talk to different people. But to reduce the black interest to free stuff is so insulting. It just makes me apoplectic.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Different
  • Why

• The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - some times pervasive, some times specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces. It's optimism that is the enemy of the rational buyer.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Business
  • Environment
  • Enemy

• Part of our job, together, is to work to reject such extremism that infects too many of our young people. Part of that effort must be a continued rejection by Muslims of those who distort Islam to preach intolerance and promote violence, and it must also a rejection by non-Muslims of the ignorance that equates Islam with terror.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Work
  • Job

• If you can’t fuck it, and it doesn’t dance, eat it or throw it away.

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • Dance

• Closed.

  

  Yogi Berra

• When you check into a hotel, they don't need to know your name and address; they just need to know that the bill will be paid. People should ask questions.

  

  Mark Walport
  • People

• I remember seeing Tony Bennett on television. He was the only guy in the orchestra who was wearing a white tux, and I thought, 'That would be good. To be the only man on stage in a white jacket.'

  

  Kurt Elling
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Guy

• Just being in a video game is an honor, and being on the cover, I can't really describe it.

  

  Aaron Judge
  • Honor
  • Describe
  • Cover

• The attack on the law firms and attacks like that are industrial espionage, searching for copyrighted materials to lift and so on; it's not quite the same as cyber-warfare. They are regarded as related. The Chinese are trying to steal an economic march on the West, which is a consequence of the fact that we outsourced all of our manufacturing to China in the 1990s.

  

  Misha Glenny
  • Consequence
  • Stealing
  • Espionage

• Titles are relatively arbitrary to me; they take on meanings that aren't really my meanings. 'Sound Of Silver' was just, like, I made the studio silver, and I wanted the record to sound 'more silver.'

  

  James Murphy