Róisín Murphy Quotes
I always try to lace my work with just a teensy-weensy bit of humour. It's rather like putting a sprig of feathery stuff in a flower arrangement: I believe humour is a great balancer.

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I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
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When you're bullied in high school, even if it's the smallest amount, or you're actually tortured, I feel like everybody carries that with them. They always think of that one person who treated them badly in high school.
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The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.
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I think we have the best women's division on Smackdown Live. But, I miss Charlotte like a son of a gun. She's my favorite person to be in the ring with. She's the most incredible talent, and she keeps improving. When you've got a talent like that who's always stepping up their game, it always keeps you stepping up your game.
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I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.
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I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang - one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
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It's hard to look inside a person to answer a question about why anybody wants to be president. I suppose a combination of ambition, ego, and a real feeling that he could make a difference and could accomplish some things. All you ever had to do for Jimmy Carter was to tell him something was impossible, and he would usually do it.
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I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances is cancelled out by the basic lack of lavatories round the world for women.
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Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.
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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
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Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
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Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
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You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.
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I play for India, I play for the 100 million people of my country.
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I love to have fun and goof around and be silly, so anybody who can also do that is good for me.
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A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny.
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There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.
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Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent; it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it offers, life would become a mere syllogism and hence too metallic to be borne.
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My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to the whole world with his words and music.
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In cloud-ships the gods are wont to travel, and wise cotters have legends that keep them from certain high peaks at night when it is cloudy, for the gods are not lenient as of old.
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Honestly, there have been some pretty good Marvel games, but I don't think there's ever been a great one.
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I want make more records with my sister. I want to go on the road. I want to tour around the world. I want to continue to make great films and work with incredible directors that I respect and look up to.
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I always try to lace my work with just a teensy-weensy bit of humour. It's rather like putting a sprig of feathery stuff in a flower arrangement: I believe humour is a great balancer.