Bernard Sumner Quotes
I think every day how incredibly lucky it is that I travel around the world playing to thousands of people.
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.
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When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.
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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.
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By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.
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I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
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I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
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I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
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I love walks, hiking, exploring and being on the beach.
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I loved DreamWorks and Pixar, and I still love kids' films.
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If you are going to make a change, don't go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore the scoffers. Remember, it is a law of nature that if something is different you're going to be taunted, jeered, and told the world is flat. Let the doubters fall off the edge.
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I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.
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'Policy' is the negation of politics; policy is by definition something concocted by some form of elite, which presumes it knows better than others how their affairs are to be conducted. By participating in policy debates the very best one can achieve is to limit the damage, since the very premise is inimical to the idea of people managing their own affairs.
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But all my life though, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise. I saw in later life that this spirit was an essential part of Satyagraha. It has often meant endangering my life and incurring the displeasure of friends. But truth is hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.
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I feel that gender balance in the work environment is actually the best recipe for success.
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I think every day how incredibly lucky it is that I travel around the world playing to thousands of people.
