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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Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.
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There was living in the palace at this time a brother of the great Germanicus, and consequently an uncle of the late emperor, whose name was Claudius Caesar.
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By 2007, an uncompetitive, bloated, over-borrowed and distorted Irish economy had been left at the mercy of subsequent international events without the safeguards, institutions, and mindset needed to survive and prosper as a small open economy inside the euro area.
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My uncle's dying wish - he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair.
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I was a bike rider, a photographer and a history student, probably in that order. (On his early years)
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My uncle was a photographer for 'The Irish Times.'
