Bernard Sumner Quotes
I'm terrible with decisions. And I can't make myself do something I don't like. I can't knuckle under.
Quotes to Explore
-
We're a nation of celebrity and hero worshipers, so much so that we make heroes out of those who aren't, such as John Wayne: a patriotic, red-blooded, two-fisted American who spent the Second World War in the trenches on the movie lots of Hollywood.
-
Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.
-
We should not underestimate the ability of people to do wrong if they want to do so.
-
When I go to where I was getting excellent parts in movies I may have taken a few too soon, too anxious to go back to work and to anxious to make another film and to succeed more.
-
We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
-
I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
-
I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.
-
The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.
-
The process is always the same. I get an inspiration for a new song, I put it down on paper immediately so I won't lose it. When I am ready to go to the studio with it, I play it a few times on the piano and edit, add, and type the lyrics and take it to the studio. Sometimes I don't have anything on paper.
-
Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.
-
I think that what we need to do is say, 'Reading is going to really affect your life.' You take a black man who doesn't have a job, but you say to him, 'Look, you can make a difference in your child's life, just by reading to him for 30 minutes a day.' That's what I would like to do.
-
My life has been a whirlwind since the '94 Olympics.
-
Jimmy Grants is my first stop every time I go home to Australia. They make the best souvlakis you have ever tasted.
-
People can't see that if I had not been a poet, I could never have had such success as a traveler.
-
I choose to be American, I choose to live in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, I choose to have Puerto Rican/Jewish neighbors, and I choose to maintain my Chinese identity.
-
I got into the habit of filtering out all the good in my life, focusing on only the negative. I'm not sure why I did it, but it's a pretty depressing state.
-
I do like to keep mementos from my work, whether they be photos, the backs of make-up chairs or even props and clothes.
-
Money is a crystal formed of necessity in the course of the exchanges, whereby different products of labour are practically equated to one another and thus by practice converted into commodities.
-
I know the hole he went in at, but I can't tell you what hole he will come out of.
-
Everything about my journey to get Spanx off the ground entailed me having to be a salesperson - from going to the hosiery mills to get a prototype made to calling Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. I had to position myself to get five minutes in the door with buyers.
-
I think Ronald Reagan was one of the great presidents, period, not just recently. I thought he had the demeanor. I thought he had the bearing. I thought he had the thought process.
-
I, over the years, have always felt more comfortable if I could go into a projection room and look at a film and not really know what to expect. If you read the script first, you form all kinds of preconceptions about how things look, what the location's like, what the actors are like.
-
I'm terrible with decisions. And I can't make myself do something I don't like. I can't knuckle under.
