James Murphy Quotes
I'm always surprised by how optimistic and open sometimes people who are very successful are.
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I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.
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I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.
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I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.
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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
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We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
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I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.
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If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably the only thing my parents wouldn't complain about.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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We are ready to work hard, work together to re-elect President Barack Obama. We must do it because women deserve to make their own choices and determine the course of their lives.
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The motivation is important for me to act it, but I don't necessarily want the audience to know my motivation.
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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
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The truth is that for a Democrat to triumph in a presidential election, it needs to come on the heels of 'the dark times' of an unpopular Republican administration. Carter followed the Nixon era, Clinton succeeded after 12 years of Reagan/Bush, and Obama was a direct result of eight years of Bush/Cheney.
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After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.
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As a race, the Negroes are not lazy.
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God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of.
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We need somebody to put rat poisoning in Justice Stevens's creme brulee. That's just a joke, for you in the media.
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We have four beautiful children and some wonderful memories.
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I love my country so much.
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After the birth of printing books became widespread. Hence everyone throughout Europe devoted himself to the study of literature... Every year, especially since 1563, the number of writings published in every field is greater than all those produced in the past thousand years. Through them there has today been created a new theology and a new jurisprudence; the Paracelsians have created medicine anew and the Copernicans have created astronomy anew. I really believe that at last the world is alive, indeed seething, and that the stimuli of these remarkable conjunctions did not act in vain.
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A friend is someone who supports you. And these people are buying tickets at outrageous ticket prices. If that ain't support, I don't know what is.
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I'm always surprised by how optimistic and open sometimes people who are very successful are.
