Bernard Sumner Quotes
In New Order, I played about 95% of the synths. It's not much fun for the other guys in the band when I'm playing my synth parts.
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When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.
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I started looking at fashion magazines, specifically 'British Vogue.' I was reading a lot about Cecil Beaton. Then I thought maybe I should start collecting.
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It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?
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Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.
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I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.
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It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.
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What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge myself. Then it's the people I meet and choosing the projects I want to work on correctly. There's a lot of characters I can play.
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Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
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We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.
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To my mind, an adventure is something a person willingly undertakes.
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Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple.
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The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.
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I like going to rifle and pistol clubs and joining them in target shooting. I also share the same respect for individual initiative and love of family.
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Do you honestly think that if Senator Santorum becomes president, we're going to get rid of contraceptives?
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I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I need to do to stay here. I really don't understand women who are in denial, who don't want to go for a mammogram. I think it's stupidity. Sorry. I have no patience for that.
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Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
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The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
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If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.
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Nature will not let us stay in any one place for too long. She will let us stay just long enough to gather the experience necessary to the unfolding and advancement of the soul. This is a wise provision, for should we stay there too long, we would become too set, too rigid, too inflexible. Nature demands change in order that we may advance.
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Business is fun. Controlling your own destiny is fun. Creating an idea and turning it into a movie; finding an artist and guiding their career and bringing them to some type of status - there's joy in that.
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I've said this before, that, when you're in school and you're the class clown, men are really good at making fun at other people and women are really good at making fun of themselves.
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I don't believe that you can give the same performance every take. It's physically impossible, so why bother? If you don't do what is happening at that moment, then it's not real. Then you're holding something back.
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I knew I could do anything I wanted to do and go anywhere I wanted to go and not have to worry if I could afford it.
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In New Order, I played about 95% of the synths. It's not much fun for the other guys in the band when I'm playing my synth parts.
