James Murphy Quotes
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My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.
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Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience.
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I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD.
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I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together.
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The difference between Tinted Windows and Hanson shows is a lot of just repertoire. Hanson has been a band for years - we have a lot of songs to pull from and it's a different dynamic - a common kind of thread. With Tinted Windows - it's kind of a little like 'hey, we're this new band.'
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I got lost but look what I found.
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I'm quite a slow reader. It can take me quite a while to get though a book.
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I enjoy science, and I'm a very curious person. I always want to know the reason behind everything, big or small.
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My favourite job hands down - and I think I can speak for everyone involved - was 'Breaking Bad.'
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We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
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The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.
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I used to eat a whole chicken, every day, for lunch. I did that for four years. But it got tiring - go to the store, buy it, eat it. It's a mess.
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The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.
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When I started stand-up, the first thing I did was to take an improv class.
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Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it's incredibly exciting.
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There's no other major item most of us own that is as confusing, unpredictable and unreliable as our personal computers.
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In any triangle the centre of gravity lies on the straight line joining any angle to the middle point of the opposite side.
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'It makes me madder than a hornet to be disbelieved,' she explained.
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I have no deep desire to hit the pavement and audition for TV projects or raise money to produce a show.
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All in all, the dives I made in Fiordland were some of the best I've ever made.
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The commonly accepted definition of terrorism is that it is politically motivated violence directed at civilians by entities other than a state. These kind of attacks can come from the far right, the far left, racists of every stripe, as well as jihadists.
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I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief.
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In positive terms, we can state that psychological maturity entails finding greater satisfaction in giving than in receiving; having a capacity to form satisfying and permanent loyalties; being primarily a creative, contributing person; having learned to profit from experience; having a freedom from fear (anxiety) with a resulting true serenity and not a pseudo absence of tension; and accepting and making the most of unchangeable reality when it confronts one.
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I don't have a TV, and I don't have a radio.
