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.'

  

  Manny Coto
  • Doctor
  • Wait
  • Line

• 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.

  

  Wale
  • Me
  • Learning
  • Famous

• 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.

  

  Nancy A. Collins
  • School
  • High
  • Culture

• Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Great
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• 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.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• 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.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Rose

• Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • Real
  • Ideas

• As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
  • Thinking
  • You
  • Mom

• A man is what he thinks about all day long.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Long
  • Man
  • Day

• Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.

  

  Larry King
  • School
  • Ahead
  • Graduated

• I don't care about how much other actors get.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Care
  • Other
  • How

• 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.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Time
  • World
  • Power

• 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.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Job
  • Think
  • Grateful

• Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.

  

  Xenophon
  • Government
  • Laws
  • Wherever

• 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.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Want
  • Kind
  • Radio

• 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.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Money
  • Future

• Winning, you can overlook so many things.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • You
  • Things
  • Winning

• The challenge is how strange and different my voice sounds, so I have tried to sound like other people and tried to be something I wasn't. I have tried to be a soul singer because someone else thought that a good idea. Not because I did.

  

  Valerie June
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• I've never been with a losing team in my life, and I don't think I'll start now.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Life
  • Team
  • My Life

• When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Up
  • Country
  • American

• Some directors were brilliant in the silent era but never felt at home in sound. It's like a sculptor being forced to take up painting.

  

  Kevin Brownlow
  • Up
  • Home
  • Painting

• Everyone knows there are billions and billions of stars, and national debts conjure up similar astronomical numbers. Yet we have found a way to hide the zeros: 10

  

  John D. Barrow
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• I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that 'while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the emancipation proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation, or by any of the Acts of Congress.' If the people should, by whatever mode or means, make it an Executive duty to re-enslave such persons, another, and not I, must be their instrument to perform it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Present
  • Slavery
  • Declaration

• 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.

  

  James Murphy
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