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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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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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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One of the reasons that I take such joy in being a trustee of the New York Public Library is the love of reading that I found as a child in the Saturday morning library events for preschoolers and first and second graders as I was growing up in Augusta, GA.
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Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.
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Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.
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I basically took six or seven years off, but then I had another five or four of me not working at all because I was in school. It was really 13 years of me not working at all... I really couldn't even think about it.
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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.
