Bernard Sumner Quotes

If you go out and just play the old stuff and never write new stuff, you're not really a complete musician, you're a performer.

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• Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • People
  • Die
  • Waiting

• We played 'Girl in a Country Song' in front of Scott Borchetta, and he loved it.

  

  Madison Marlow
  • Country
  • Song
  • Girl

• I would say that Juventus is a myth not only in Italy, because it's the most loved team in Italy, but also around the world. And it has been in my family since birth.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • World
  • Family
  • Team

• I just try to live a really simple, natural life, because obviously, life has an impact on your voice.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Life
  • Live
  • Simple

• I had an unhealthy obsession with 'Only Fools and Horses.' I still have to watch an episode with my brother every two or three weeks.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Brother
  • Three
  • Obsession

• Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Women
  • Why
  • Book

• I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Believe
  • Past
  • Try

• It is not the soul alone that should be healthy; if the mind is healthy in a healthy body, all will be healthy and much better prepared to give God greater service.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • God
  • Mind
  • Soul

• My whole career - I have been really lucky.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Career
  • Lucky
  • Really

• I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Politics
  • Theatre
  • Psychology

• I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Happy
  • Funny
  • Find

• I never cared about money or fame, and I don't care now. I follow the groove, and money always follows.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Money
  • Care
  • Fame

• There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come.

  

  Jack Gould
  • Always
  • Television
  • Worst

• When I work, I try to eat as much vegetarian as possible. When I do Cupid, I eat vegetarian because I need the energy. I've got those wings on my back.

  

  Karl Urban
  • Work
  • Energy
  • Wings

• As a revelation from God, they have stood the test of many ages; and as such maintained their ground against every species of enemy, and every mode of attack. Truth is mighty, and must prevail.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • God
  • Truth
  • Enemy

• Rian Malan was one of the first younger writers to perceive and write about a darkness in the South African psyche that goes deeper than mere politics. To some extent, that's my territory, too.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Politics
  • First
  • Darkness

• I have been known to go to the grocery store and just buy pepperoni. There's just something fantastic about salty, fatty meats.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Something
  • Just
  • Buy

• I don't really consider myself an American filmmaker like, say, Ron Howard might be considered an American filmmaker. If I'm doing something and it seems to me to be reminiscent of an Italian giallo, I'm gonna to do it like an Italian giallo.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • American
  • Might
  • Filmmaker

• To be successful, you don't have to have all this crazy start-up capital or a ton of knowledge. I think it's actually helpful sometimes to not know all the rules because that way it's easier to break them.

  

  Lauren Bush
  • Up
  • Knowledge
  • Crazy

• It's a difficult thing today to be informed about our government even without all the secrecy.

  

  Donald Rumsfeld
  • Today

• It's like you have to save your own life, nobody is going to be your savior for you, so we have to do what we have to do, no matter what it is

  

  Kai Greene
  • Life
  • Matter
  • Like You

• I've always dreamed of growing up to be Amy Poehler.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Dreamed

• If you go out and just play the old stuff and never write new stuff, you're not really a complete musician, you're a performer.

  

  Bernard Sumner Joy Division