Bernard Sumner Quotes
One of the things I like about music is it's an abstract art, totally abstract, where you can convey an emotion, which I find amazing.
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I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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I feel nowadays a lot of bands can be too overly produced. There's something about the leather pants and bare bodies and Axl Rose running back and forth on a stage and going crazy. I love all that.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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With this business, you have to learn to go with the flow. Not being able to grow in comfort is a beautiful thing when you're uncomfortable, so just embrace it and roll with it, and you'll come out stronger.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.
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'Twin Peaks' fans, it's a hardcore group of people.
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There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.
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In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.
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I hope to instill, in every child I meet, my love and enthusiasm for reading and stories.
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When you live in L.A., it is easy to stay fit, as the weather is amazing.
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As prime minister, I changed Israel's position on peace negotiations. I made it clear that we are ready to go along with Resolution 242 of the U.N. Security Council, which specifies withdrawal to secure and recognized boundaries in the context of peace.
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It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.
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I do respect them; I have great respect for women. In fact, one of the reasons 'The Apprentice' was such a successful show for so many years, the audience of women was fantastic.
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But everything has been so gradual that it's sort of all come from, just hard work and basically being at it.
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We've been allowed to operate unmolested on the fringes of the music scene, really. That's where we enjoy it most.
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Everything in my life was about performance when I was doing 'The Partridge Family.'
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Before blogs, it was all about physical presence. We used to send out videos and audiotapes to communicate. Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.
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One of the things I like about music is it's an abstract art, totally abstract, where you can convey an emotion, which I find amazing.
