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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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
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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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I feel like, growing up, I watched football, obviously, and you see great players, and as a fan, you want to watch the best you can possibly watch, and you want to see what's capable of being made.
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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Human beings are natural mimickers. The more you're conscious of the other side's posture, mannerisms, and word choices - and the more you subtly reflect those back - the more accurate you'll be at taking their perspective.
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Work faithfully, and you will put yourself in possession of a glorious and enlarging happiness.
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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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I have been so lucky to receive so much love from those who enjoy my music, that I feel I have to give as much of it as I can back to children.
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We're not here to make the ignorant people happy. We're here to write our music for those people that are interested in good rock n' roll music.
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You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.
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In all people I see myself - none more, and not one a barleycorn less; And the good or bad I say of myself, I say of them.
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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.
