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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On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.
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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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I was lucky to be with Johnny... he taught me a lot about fame.
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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 never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.
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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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There were certain things I couldn't do with New Order without upsetting the rest of the band, so I started to write some solo stuff.
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I spent most of my 20s playing music. I was in a band, and we worked really hard and did not get very far.
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I've been bisexual for as long as I can remember. I remember being made fun of in junior high for that. It was something that was shameful, and it really shouldn't be.
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Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures.
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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.
