Bernard Sumner Quotes
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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In film, you are a totally different person than in the video.
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It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.
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I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.
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No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor.
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Mister Cee's a legend, man.
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I led the life of an intellectual up until a certain age. I remember Freud's 'Interpretation of Dreams' was a big favorite when I was 11. It sounded so interesting. And it really was!
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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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I don't think anybody's really been successful with theorizing about value or creating a price theory.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
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L.A. really doesn't feel like home to me anymore.
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I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about.
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I've always wanted to stay involved with young people. I never bought into the idea that entertainers owe nothing to their audience except a good performance.
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I've always had an interest in sports across the board.
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You don't choose your public; your public chooses you.
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I'd never want to do something just for the show of it.
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Wuxia is a fantasy world exists in everyone's mind.
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This is not 1968 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia, where Russia can threaten its neighbors, occupy a capital, overthrow a government, and get away with it. Things have changed.
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I know when I started I would have been happy to sound like the Beatles or Joe Tex or whoever. You want to sound like most bands, you want to sound like their records and that's how you learn your chops.
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Don't worry whether or not I am now happy. Today is only chapter one, we have yet to write a book.
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You've got to coach worrying about your entire team: whether that gets you a championship or whether that gets you fired. I think it allows you to coach free. You're coaching with freedom because you know you're doing what you think is right.
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There's a great deal of scientific evidence that social connectedness is a very strong protector of emotional well-being, and I think there's no question that social isolation has greatly increased in our culture in, say, the past 50 years, past 100 years.
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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.
