Róisín Murphy Quotes
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I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.
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Art is going to make a bigger comeback than ever. That's the upside to things getting challenging.
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Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.
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I had a lot of survival jobs. One was for the Witty Ditty singing-telegram company. I was in the red-and-white stripes with the straw boater hat and kazoo. Balloons. Even when you're sleeping on a friend's couch, you have to pay some kind of rent.
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If you go back to all my albums, they're all confessional.
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College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions.
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I have a lot of kids in my district who haven't been to the beach, much less Washington, D.C., and that's 20 miles away.
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Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
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We all stand on the dart board and very few of us catch the darts. Do not think it is unfair. It is fair but you are unlucky.
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Lord but I dislike poetry. How can anyone remember words that aren’t put to music?
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Make no mistake about it. Gun control is not about crook control. It's about America control.
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The '60s was a magical time in the music business. So much creativity and talent. I think a lot of it came from the fact that we had grown up before rock n' roll. We listened to all the great songwriters and big bands, songs with great lyrics and melodies. I think that really influenced everybody.
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The gym is somewhere you can go to just forget for an hour what you do for a living, what you are doing on a daily basis. You just turn up and get on with it.
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I don't like when people put their dishes in the dishwasher without scrubbing them properly because it comes out with those little white dots and then you can't get those out. And you have to rewash them.
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Academics often discount the value of top-rated sports programs in helping to develop a campus life and in contributing to the overall success of a college or university. Like it or not, the sports programs a college or university has are the front page of that university.
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Everyone is insecure, especially in high school.
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I think it's sexy when women have shapely bodies.
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The fact that hardly anyone is ever prepared to admit to racist behaviour is perhaps a sort of strength: it speaks to the fact that racism is socially inadmissible.
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This is a serious storm that has caused serious damage in our state … We're pleased we haven't seen breaches in the levees. We're pleased we haven't seen major flooding in New Orleans or the places that flooded before. But there are serious challenges.
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I was just a kid and I didn't have a dad. That's hard, because when you're a kid, you blame yourself for everything. And I blamed myself for him not being around, for my parents not being together.
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I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.
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Art is the colors and textures of your imagination.
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My uncle was a photographer for 'The Irish Times.'
