James Murphy Quotes

I am kind of, by definition, a hipster.

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• It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Law
  • Justice
  • Spirit

• When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Great
  • Book
  • Game

• If I did a talk show, this would allow me to speak on what's happening at that moment. I can be current, and I get to flex my stand-up muscle but stay at home without doing the traveling.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Up
  • Home
  • Speak

• I sort of always had an inkling towards some kind of an art form. I grew up in a very small town, and I just figure-skated. My dad played hockey and I was surrounded by sports, but it wasn't quite doing it for me. I wasn't totally fulfilled, and I did a lot of skating.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Up
  • Art
  • Small

• I've never set out to seduce my reader. I don't see him at all clearly.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Never
  • See
  • Him

• Music’s playin’ up and down the blockMostly Christian, Blues, Country, Folk, and Southern RockIt’s our little piece of paradise way out here in the woodsThere is always somethin’ goin’ on down in the trailerhood.

  

  Toby Keith
  • Up
  • Music
  • Country

• I never hugged him, I bombed him.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

• When people get disillusioned and get insecure and content about the future, they tend to brood about what might have been.

  

  Dave Davies The Kinks
  • People
  • Future

• I am not a therapist. I am not a spiritual leader. These elements are in the art: it is therapeutic, spiritual, social and political - everything. It has many layers. But art has to have many layers. If it doesn't, then forget it.

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • Art
  • Political
  • Spiritual

• You gotta find that hook so everybody can grab on to it. So that you're true to the culture but, at the same time, how it relates to the larger tapestry.

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • Time
  • True
  • Culture

• If you look where kids are spending time on the Net, they may have all the information in the world, but they're not accessing it.

  

  Beeban Kidron
  • Time
  • World
  • May

• It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.

  

  Pierre Bayle
  • May
  • Opinion

• In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained.

  

  James Henry Breasted
  • Life
  • Time
  • Knowledge

• I used to look back at pictures and cringe but actually I'm quite proud that I've had fun with fashion and don't always look perfect. The only regret I have is when I look at something I wore when I was very young and it obviously looks like it belonged to someone else.

  

  Emma Watson
  • Fun
  • Perfect
  • Fashion

• I'm going for Britain's Best Dressed Man award, but strangely, I'm never on the list.

  

  Anton du Beke

• In 1980, in 1984, millions of middle-class Democrats became Reagan Democrats, and more of them drifted toward the Republicans with Bush in 1988.

  

  Mario Cuomo

• I'm Dario Argento, and my style is something recognizable I think by the audience.

  

  Dario Argento
  • Style

• Progressive activists are angry that a Medicare-for-all single-payer approach was totally ignored during the health care debate.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • Health
  • Single
  • Angry

• Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Like
  • Scene
  • Theater

• In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • People
  • World
  • Long

• Chemistry itself knows altogether too well that - given the real fear that the scarcity of global resources and energy might threaten the unity of mankind - chemistry is in a position to make a contribution towards securing a true peace on earth.

  

  Kenichi Fukui
  • Real
  • True
  • Earth

• I'm always at the opposite end of the spectrum, the opposite of hipster culture, and I enjoy that.

  

  Chad Kroeger Nickelback
  • Culture
  • Hipster

• Eh. Hipster's not really a thing anymore. Plus, hipster or out of touch old dude? Same uniform really.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Uniform
  • Hipster
  • Old Dude

• I am kind of, by definition, a hipster.

  

  James Murphy
  • Hipster