Bernard Sumner Quotes
Part of the reason I joined Joy Division was so that I really wouldn't have to grow up.
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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Once I discovered how important writing music was to me and just what a huge weight it lifted off of me, I knew that it was going to be the biggest part of my life, the biggest love of my life, the biggest thing in my life.
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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal. It was a lot of years of work, and when I won it, it was more a sense of relief than jubilation or exaltation.
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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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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In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn't very good at it.
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I got a great kick being in the Warner Bros. studios - that was really cool. I kept singing the 'Looney Tunes' theme song all day. I'm sure they haven't heard that one before.
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My parents are overweight, and I think the biggest problem we have in America is a lack of education. The place to start is with parents and teaching them to cook healthier.
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We need to do things better, but in a way that makes sense.
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I was in Paris, Milan and London from '89 until '91, and I did mostly runway modeling. I know there's so many people out there looking for pictures, but this was way before the age of the Internet, sorry!
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We've had Audrey Hepburn, we've had Twiggy, we've had Veruschka, we've had Kate Moss. I'm trying to figure out why I am to blame for skinniness.
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We live in the world when we love it.
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You were born as the one you are.
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And all for love, and nothing for reward.
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Women are just much better at getting degrees than men. It seems that school at every level plays to the natural strengths of women more than it does to men.
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I love dressing up around the holidays! My friends also really like to get dressed up. It's an excuse to get fancy.
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I run because I enjoy it — not always, but most of the time. I run because I have always run — not trained, but run. What do I get? Joy and pain. Good health and injuries. Exhilaration and despair. A feeling of accomplishment and a feeling of waste. The sunrise and the sunset.
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I like to have the impression that whatever is happening is true.
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Part of the reason I joined Joy Division was so that I really wouldn't have to grow up.
