Peter Murphy Quotes
Yes. I guess it's the foolish romantic in me, but you see, I don’t think that sex is my Muse.
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.
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For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.
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Getting divorced didn't sour me on the institution of marriage. I'll tell you what I'll never do: I'll never get divorced again.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
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I grew up in a funeral home, born and raised, and everyone was always like, 'Well, what was that like?' and I was like, 'It was normal', because it's all I knew.
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Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.
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You just have to do what you know is right.
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We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.
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I'm motivated by creating a level playing field for the world so that the weak have a chance.
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I barely watch TV apart from the news. Most of it is rubbish. There's all this reality nonsense and dross. I think there's a market for a well-produced, well-written melodrama like 'Dallas.' It's pure entertainment.
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If it's not 100 per cent pure maple syrup, it can't be called 'pure maple syrup.'
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Antidepressants are very good, but it's a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocked out, just to stop; when you're in that state all you want to do is just sleep, and rest your body and your brain.
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As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.
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I started playing the violin when I was 5, but by the time I was 12 or 13, I wasn't really liking it.
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Both the velodrome and the Commonwealth swimming pool are open to the public and are frequently used by local schools and the local community. Over the last six years young people have been inspired to take up swimming and cycling more seriously; some of them are now coming through as Olympic champions or hopefuls.
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I never sold any of those "lose 10 pounds every week" scams. I've not changed my tune in all these years. I've seen everything pass by me, and I've been offered millions of dollars to put my name on products that were just lies. And I never did it.
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Ours is the first society in history in which parents expect to learn from their children, rather than the other way around. Such a topsy-turvy situation has come about at least in part because, unlike the rest of the world, we are an immigrant society, and for immigrants the only hope is in the kids.
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I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.
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Those who live in the best cliffs think they are better than us. That is always man's attitude when he has power.
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Yes. I guess it's the foolish romantic in me, but you see, I don’t think that sex is my Muse.
