James Murphy Quotes

I was always just blown away by David Bowie and how mannered the guy was willing to be. It was so far from what I imagined someone with my confidence to be capable of.

James Murphy

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• I had a pretty bad time when I was an undergraduate at Cornell University. I failed out of school. I was much, much heavier.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Time
  • School
  • Bad

• Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Success
  • Me
  • Eating

• In skating or any amateur sport, as athletes we share something in common: the cost of training is quite a burden on our parents or on the athletes themselves trying to find a way to pay for their costs.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Trying
  • Parents
  • Training

• Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.

  

  Carlos Salinas de Gortari
  • Hand
  • Go
  • Ecology

• I'm a big believer in the power of visualizations. And so are neuroscientists. Numerous studies have proven how merely imagining positive circumstances sends blood flowing from negative brain regions to positive ones.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Power
  • Brain
  • Positive

• I'm still awaiting the idea of drawing comics for a living being a reality. I feel like I've been dodging work for 20 years, and at some point, I'll have to get a real job.

  

  Adam Hughes
  • Work
  • Real
  • Job

• I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.

  

  Ildar Abdrazakov
  • Work
  • Day
  • Teacher

• I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Look
  • Forward
  • Sure

• In the end, crime doesn't pay.

  

  Lane Garrison
  • End
  • Crime
  • In The End

• The biggest compliments I've heard about 'That Metal Show' are the ones from people that say that they don't even listen to this kind of music, but, 'We love watching the show.'

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • People
  • Music
  • Love

• We actors have it pretty easy and pretty hard. Easy 'cause we have a meal provided to us every 6 hours every day and craft services. The hard part is staying fit under those circumstances.

  

  T. J. Thyne
  • Pretty
  • Day
  • Everyday

• Transsexualism is far less common than homosexuality, and the research is in its infancy. Scattered studies have looked at brain activity, finger size, familial recurrence, and birth order.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Brain
  • Research
  • Size

• Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby.

  

  Jack Scalia
  • Baby
  • Last
  • Firefighters

• Always the notorious red-light district of sports, boxing today is as troubled as it was even in the days when the Mob called the shots. There are too many lawsuits and too few heroes. Absurd mismatches and fraudulent rankings by unaccountable offshore sanctioning bodies have disgusted fans.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Today
  • Light
  • Sports

• As I read more and I got into philosophy and met a lot of friends who weren't Christians, it became difficult for me to sustain the belief structure in the supernatural.

  

  Daniel Everett
  • Friends
  • Philosophy
  • Difficult

• Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Children
  • Kiss
  • Parenting

• I see a really good tag on a building, a man passed out in the middle of the street, a couple hugging, a cop arresting a panhandler. I'm interested in how all these things are happening in one block.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Good
  • Man
  • Couple

• I've gone on in front of a crowd of 10 people and 7,000 people.

  

  G-Eazy
  • People
  • Gone
  • Front

• I'm not a team sports person type person, so I probably would have been good at tennis, because I like tennis. But my parents really didn't push me. I think if my parents would have guided me and stay committed, I could have played any sport I wanted to, but I never did.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Good
  • Parents
  • Team

• Even if it does not become cashless economy, it will become a less cash economy, and I think that itself is going to be a good and big achievement, and I think we are, as a country, gone through many of large changes, and ICICI has been a leader in many of them.

  

  Chanda Kochhar
  • Good
  • Country
  • Achievement

• Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Religion
  • Rich
  • Poor

• Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Thinking
  • Love
  • Words

• In 2008, Pistorius was the only guy who could run under 22 seconds at 200 m. So I said I would run as fast as that in London. I practised; I trained.

  

  Alan Oliveira
  • Guy

• I was always just blown away by David Bowie and how mannered the guy was willing to be. It was so far from what I imagined someone with my confidence to be capable of.

  

  James Murphy
  • Guy
  • Confidence