James Murphy Quotes

When given the opportunity to fail myself or fail someone else, I choose to fail myself.

James Murphy

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• For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Music
  • Important
  • Marriage

• We got a chance to go and play in some places that the usual European tour by an American band didn't go to.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • American
  • Play
  • Band

• Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Inspiration

• It's always really challenging trying to go from player to player/coach. You have a kind of friendship basis of relationship with all of your teammates, and now you go to this power position where you have to make decisions that might hurt people's feelings.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • People
  • Trying
  • Power

• Some smashes have been timed at more than 250 mph, so you get less than a second to react. People who see a professional badminton match up close are always shocked at the speed.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • People
  • Up
  • Professional

• Faith is trust in ultimate meaning.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Faith
  • Trust
  • Meaning

• In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Great
  • You
  • Depression

• As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through.

  

  Otto Dix
  • Man
  • Dreams
  • Young Man

• I didn't get into rap to be no lyrical genius. I got into rap to feed my family and help the people in need around me, that's it. A lot of people say, 'Man, Waka Flocka ain't go no lyrics,' so I was like, 'Yeah, you right!'

  

  Waka Flocka Flame
  • People
  • Family
  • Help

• My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd participated in rattlesnake round-ups and swum with copperheads.

  

  Edmund White
  • Father
  • Young
  • Cowboy

• A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Past
  • Experiences
  • Pull

• Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half the time: You're in a hotel room one moment, and the next thing you know, you're onstage performing for 60,000 people, then you're back on an airplane. It's very hectic and I couldn't do it without my family.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • People
  • Time
  • Family

• If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Country
  • Prove
  • United

• One-sided national economic triumphs cannot be achieved in the increasingly interwoven global economy without precipitating calamitous consequences for everyone.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Without
  • Consequences

• You can collect all the plastic bottle caps you want as long as you give me the money so we can get off this death trap, find somewhere else and have tremendous fun screwing that up as well.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Up
  • Long
  • Money

• I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' writer.

  

  Iris Johansen
  • Writer
  • Mystery
  • Suspense

• For 'Dragon Quest IX,' one of the biggest things was being able to create your own character and your party members, too. The importance of it is that you can customize the face, the name, or something like that, so the party members are really a reflection of you. It becomes more of your own experience.

  

  Yuji Horii
  • Character
  • Experience
  • Party

• Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Money
  • Me
  • Painting

• I'm a bubbling brew of emotions, but mostly, I'm an optimistic person.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Person
  • Emotions
  • Optimistic

• Girl Up gives girls an opportunity and gives them a platform and starting point through which they can take it and run with it and help give girls the opportunity to have the freedom, independence and the ability to get an education.

  

  Katherine McNamara
  • Up
  • Help
  • Girl

• Yes, I think it's okay to abandon the big, established, stuck tribe. It's okay to say to them, "You're not going where I need to go, and there's no way I'm going to persuade all of you to follow me. So rather than standing here watching the opportunities fade away, I'm heading off. I'm betting some of you, the best of you, will follow me.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Opportunity
  • Stuck
  • Abandon

• Am I too fast, too facile? I do not know. I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure and name and count out the grains that make me what I am.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Sometimes
  • Knows
  • Names

• Is such a street scene as the blue prostitutes not a picture of fantasy? Of course, only the accusation is really present. But how nice, how powerful, and how removed from nature is the design. The danger of being caught up in the representational did not exist for Kirchner he is writing about himself, in the third person. Instead he thought too painterly for that. The graphics and paintings of the 'Streetscenes' show best where purely painterly, one could say non-representational, feelings converged.

  

  Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
  • Present
  • Design
  • Danger

• When given the opportunity to fail myself or fail someone else, I choose to fail myself.

  

  James Murphy
  • Opportunity