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James Murphy Quotes

Even in the band I was in when I was a kid, I'd be telling everyone what to do. I'd be leaning over the drums, telling them to tune their guitars, micromanaging.

James Murphy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: February 4, 1970

Topics

Band Kid Over Everyone Drums Even

When new cooks come to work for me, they obviously make mistakes at the beginning or there's some messiness to the presentation. What I always say to them is: 'If you were cooking this for your mother or your girlfriend, would you make those mistakes?'

Joel Robuchon

Work Mother Cooking Mistakes Me You

After the baby, I got bigger, and I like it. I like me better now than when I was young and skinny. I don't understand this extreme fashion for being anorexic-skinny. We forgot about women with curves - real women. We're not embracing that anymore.

Anna Netrebko

Women Me Baby Fashion Better Curves

Thinkers too often disparage men of action in ways that do them no credit.

Michael Ignatieff

Men Action Credit Thinkers Ways Too

I was a bit of a loner as a teenager. I never went to a single social event, because they terrified me.

Mia Wasikowska

Me Never Single Loner Social Event

Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.

Ambrose Bierce

Weather Kind Instrument Ingenious

I was always just kind of obsessed with guitar, even before I started playing.

St. Vincent

Guitar Kind Always Playing Started

And I have been campaigning for the past three months trying to get the Senate Judiciary Committee that has the oversight authority and responsibility to start its own public hearings.

Sibel Edmonds

Responsibility Past Start Trying Own

My wife can't cook at all. She made chocolate mousse. An antler got stuck in my throat.

Rodney Dangerfield

Wife Chocolate She Cook Stuck Made

I look like a duck. It's the way my mouth curls up, or my nose tilts up. I should have played Howard the Duck.

Michelle Pfeiffer

Duck Mouth Look Way Up Nose

There's a directness and a feistiness to being from Jersey.

Ali Larter

Being Jersey

I used to like Barbra Streisand films. It was 'Funny Girl' that really turned me on, in a sense, to acting. I remember it specifically being a rainy Saturday afternoon. I couldn't play football, so I stayed in, and I watched 'Funny Girl.'

Sean Harris

Funny Girl Football Me Saturday

I think it's healthy to gain a perspective on who you are deep down, question yourself, and challenge yourself; it's important to do that.

Selena Gomez

Challenge Perspective Yourself Think