Bernard Sumner Quotes

Joy Division sounded like Manchester: cold, sparse and, at times, bleak.

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• Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.

  

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• Our nation is today a powerful nation.

  

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• The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn.

  

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• I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.

  

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• Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.

  

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• The Cistercians do not eat meat... Yet they keep pigs to the number of many thousands, and sell the bacon - though perhaps not quite all of it. The heads, legs, and feet they neither give away, throw away, nor sell. What becomes of them God knows.

  

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• Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary.

  

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• We appreciate quiet living. It's not exactly a Hollywood way of life - I couldn't stand living out in Hollywood because you can never escape from the business. All people ever do is talk about movies. At least in New York you can have some other life.

  

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• It is extremely important that mass media, having freed from the relics of the Cold War, served for peace and dialogue between nations and religions, the rich and the poor, countries and continents.

  

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• We know that when change comes, no one is more adamant in holding on to the past than those in power. They know change is inevitable, but they would, if they could, parcel it out in measured pieces. Grain for chickens.

  

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• Joy Division sounded like Manchester: cold, sparse and, at times, bleak.

  

  Bernard Sumner Joy Division
  • Joy
  • Cold