Róisín Murphy Quotes
I am very attracted to funny people - I'd go so far as to say I find it hard to trust unfunny people.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.
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But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.
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You'd believe that a patient with hypertension, if you know you have hypertension or diabetes, you would take your drug every day. The compliance rate is more like 30% or 40%. Which means that 60% of patients don't take their drugs, and they actually go into these crises, end up in the hospital.
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I think the biggest part of a good party is the host and then going around making sure nobody's left alone and knows enough about the people in the room to know who to introduce to whom.
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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Why was the amendment, expressly declaring the right of the people to exclude slavery, voted down? Plainly enough now, the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision.
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The shooting of the guns, that was kind of funny, because rolling a cigarette and shooting a gun aren't like normal things for a 13-year old girl!
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Each year I host a leadership summit in my district, and my biggest advice to young people is get experience. Get your foot in the door.
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I can imagine that the Iraqis undertake the destruction out of fear. If they had denied it, if they had said no, that certainly would have played into the hands of those that would like to take armed action immediately. I have no illusions in that regard.
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I spent my entire childhood in an environment in which the mighty of the earth had no place outside story books and dreams.
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When I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.
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Men are very emotionally dependent upon women from the day they are born to the day they expire.
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I try to eat fruit and be healthy.
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The legitimacy of the leadership depends on what that country thinks of its leaders.
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Sports are my favorite. It's the first thing I turn to every day.
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I think it's important for us as a society to remember that the youth within juvenile justice systems are, most of the time, youths who simply haven't had the right mentors and supporters around them - because of circumstances beyond their control.
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I wanted just a song to sing, and there came a certain point where I couldn't sing anything. So I had to write what I wanted to sing 'cos nobody else was writing what I wanted to sing.
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My very first products were hand-made, one-of-a-kind pins. When I finally realized I could repeat a phrase to make multiples, 'intellectuals gone bad,' a fairly succinct description of my own life, seemed appropriate.
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When I lose my temper it's because I decide to. If I do something it's because I want to do it.
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At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.
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That Sid Vicious was obviously a schizophrenic, kind of a mean one too.
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To be honest, I'm really more of a jeans and T-shirt kind of a girl.
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I am very attracted to funny people - I'd go so far as to say I find it hard to trust unfunny people.
