Róisín Murphy Quotes
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Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.
Jack Adams -
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.
Aaron Sorkin -
If you go back to all my albums, they're all confessional.
Yoko Ono -
College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
Adam Clarke -
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.
Randy Pausch
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Lord but I dislike poetry. How can anyone remember words that aren’t put to music?
Patrick Rothfuss -
Make no mistake about it. Gun control is not about crook control. It's about America control.
Derrick Grayson -
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.
Frankie Valli Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons -
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.
Luke Evans -
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.
Britt Robertson -
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.
James E. Rogers
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Everyone is insecure, especially in high school.
Kevin McHale -
Me as an artist, I'm more notorious for writing songs that celebrate women, songs that are all about the positive element of the immensely confusing creature that is woman.
Ne-Yo -
The unions claim the deck is stacked against them when it comes to labor laws, but the truth is many private and public sector workers are forced to pay union dues as a condition of their employment, yet they have little say in how the unions spend their money.
Linda Chavez -
France has to accelerate in terms of reform.
Emmanuel Macron -
Ireland, once you live there, you're seduced by it.
Frank McCourt -
I have a deep faith in God.
Bob McNair
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I hope, by God's grace, that I am truly a Christian, not deviating from the faith, and that I would rather suffer the penalty of a terrible death than wish to affirm anything outside of the faith or transgress the commandments of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Jan Hus -
The countries that share this conception should be able to go further together, without excluding the others, since they can still live in a greater community of exchange and co-operation.
Jacques Delors -
The Swiss are well armed and enjoy great freedom.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
All I do is track a profane route to something (I hope) profound. Like swimming a river of shit for a kiss.
Chuck Palahniuk -
Many of you have been reared on the cliche that the purpose of education isn't to stuff your head with facts but to teach you how to think. Wrong.
Bret Stephens -
My uncle was a photographer for 'The Irish Times.'
Róisín Murphy