James Murphy Quotes

I had friends who were jocks or whatever... Then, around 12 or 13, kids get cliquish and cruel, and that disgusted me. It seemed a reprehensible use of one's arbitrary social status. So I got really aggressive about it and became more of a weird kid.

James Murphy

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I still feel like a novice when it comes to classical theater, but I don't ever want to become comfortable with anything. The greatest creativity comes from being nervous and uncomfortable.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

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Jimmy Baldwin was not only a writer, an international literary figure: he was a man, spirit, voice - old and black and terrible as that first ancestor.

Amiri Baraka

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Kindness is weak when you use it in a self-serving manner. Self-serving kindness is thin - people can see right through it when a kind leader has an agenda.

Travis Bradberry

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Domino is all about... as an actress and as the character that is going to be on the screen, you already allude to it: it's all about the sass.

Rob Liefeld

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Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.

Rupert Holmes

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I think sequels are fine if there's a story, so I think when there is a property that is worthy of a sequel, it could very well happen!

Roy Conli

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It's much too easy to come here illegally and very, very difficult to become an immigrant through lawful process. I think we need to reverse those.

Mike Pompeo

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Patience is the art of hoping.

Luc de Clapiers

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The separation of a childless couple is dramatic, but the separation of a couple with children is always tragic.

Louis Garrel

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I tune everything out.

Joshua Ledet

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With poets, the choice of words is invariably more telling than the story line; that's why the best of them dread the thought of their biographies being written.

Joseph Brodsky

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For me, you've got to start from within. The things you eat directly affect the way you feel and the way you move.

Derek Hough

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