James Murphy Quotes
Ad Rock from the Beastie Boys gave me a present: it's a boombox with a keyboard and a beatbox in it. You can't make that up.
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I would wait in line for anything to do with 'Doctor Who.'
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I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
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The vampires in the 'VAMPS' series judge each other as harshly as they judge humans, and basically, vampires don't get along very well. So you've got a culture that's from cradle to grave like the worst high school you've ever been in.
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.
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A man is what he thinks about all day long.
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Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
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I don't care about how much other actors get.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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So, I think I'd be grateful for the next job. I always am. And I always consider everything I do to be the last thing I do.
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Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
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I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.
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If you want to put out a million CDs and sell them and get them played on the radio, and even videos, or whatever, if that still exists, that kind of muscle can only come from a label like Columbia.
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I get paid the same money if I'm fighting on pay-per-view or on Fight Pass, and Fight Pass is just getting started. It's the future. The Internet, many people watch it.
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Winning, you can overlook so many things.
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I'm obsessed with Marcus Mumford. I've got to know him recently; he's amazing.
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I have a lot of cultural references that have amassed in my brain like shrapnel over the years that are meaningful to me.
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There's nothing more irresistible to a man than a woman who's in love with him.
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We always question the bonafides of the man who tells us unpleasant facts.
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Rock & roll mostly is a very butch thing, and it appeals to one hard side of the masculine character. But I don't think the Rolling Stones are only a rock band. They can be other things. They can be very feminine.
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Ad Rock from the Beastie Boys gave me a present: it's a boombox with a keyboard and a beatbox in it. You can't make that up.
