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

• 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

• 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

• For many people, commuting is the worst part of the day, and policies that can make commuting shorter and more convenient would be a straightforward way to reduce minor but widespread suffering.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Day
  • Suffering

• Many of Reagan's listeners thought he was dreaming. But Reagan had faith in freedom. He knew that communism, although militarily powerful, was ideologically dead. He knew what our Founders knew: that, in a truly legitimate government, power does not come out of the barrel of a gun, but only from the consent of the people.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • Power
  • Freedom

• I did a lot of theater, so especially as an on-camera camera actor, there are so many things that aren't in your toolbox. They're somebody else's job. You think about editors and rhythm. Volume isn't even in your control.

  

  Kerry Bishe
  • Job
  • Control

• We need to educate our elite coaches more and have a better approach to teaching the athletes about how to be healthy rather than berate them, humiliate them, use tactics that could scar them for life.

  

  Dominique Moceanu
  • Life

• I like girls to be wild but at the same time beautifully brought up and very funny.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Girl

• I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.

  

  Sally Field
  • Work
  • Changed
  • Studio

• My biggest problem in middle school was catty girls, cliques, and trying to figure out if I wanted to be a part of one of those, just figuring out who I was and all that.

  

  Lindsey Shaw
  • Trying
  • School

• 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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