Bernard Sumner Quotes

People come up to me and say, 'You changed my life.' I don't think I changed anyone's life. I think their life changed while they were listening to the music.

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• The tribal system from which the Celt never freed himself entirely was the curse of the Celtic race, predooming it to ruin.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Never
  • Race
  • Curse

• A reciprocal of a fraction is found by flipping it upside down. If you want the reciprocal of a mixed number or a whole number, just convert it to an improper fraction, and then flip it!

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Want
  • Down
  • Upside Down

• Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Nature
  • Harmony

• My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Business
  • Friends
  • Doing

• No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Really
  • Lucky
  • Superhero

• On average, our corps members stay in the classroom for eight years. But again, given the systemic nature of educational inequity, we know it is vital that some of our alumni take their experience outside the classroom.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Experience
  • Nature
  • Know

• Celine Dion is my major inspiration.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Inspiration
  • Major
  • Celine Dion

• I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Up
  • Bull
  • Rider

• Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Bad
  • Trust
  • Animal

• The final phone call that said we're going to be picked up again was just a miracle. We've overcome the impossible and we're still pushing forward. I know John is smiling and so happy that he gets to watch us on TV.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Impossible

• I will say I am the sum of my books.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Books
  • Sum

• Excellence always sells.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Always
  • Excellence
  • Sells

• When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Want
  • Forgive
  • Table

• I'm cold in summer. I'm the coldest person ever! It's very ironic I'm never cold in the scripts. Every time I'm shooting, if you don't see a part of me, there are hot water bottles there.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Time
  • Water
  • Cold

• I've been reading titles from IDW for probably as long as they've been in existence. 'Ninja Turtles' is one of my all-time favorite properties ever. I also love, love, love 'Locke & Key.' I also love some of the things they do with pre-existing properties like 'Transformers' and 'Ghostbusters.'

  

  Taran Killam
  • Time
  • Existence
  • Favorite

• Choosing a spouse with religion in mind is not always a mistake, especially if your heritage and your faith are important parts of who you are. The trick is, as always, to recognize a good thing when you see it - and never mistake the bad for something more.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Good
  • Important
  • Mind

• New synthetic substances - steel, concrete, glass - are actively superseding the traditional raw materials of construction.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • New
  • Construction
  • Glass

• Small businesses all across this nation are tired of the uncertainty created by Washington.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Tired
  • Uncertainty

• 'Blood sweat and tears homie I'm made of it'

  

  Kid Cudi
  • Tears

• For us, as actors, and even for the director, it gave us a sense of authenticity to what we were doing because we were talking about Hollywood and we were in Hollywood.

  

  Berenice Bejo
  • Authenticity

• If people are failing, they look inept. If people are succeeding, they look strong and good and competent. That's the 'halo effect.' Your first impression of a thing sets up your subsequent beliefs. If the company looks inept to you, you may assume everything else they do is inept.

  

  Daniel Kahneman
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Life is a long lesson in humility.

  

  James M. Barrie
  • Life
  • Long
  • Humility

• My real passion is to make movies, to direct. It's good for my ego to be an actress. It's like someone is saying, 'Yes, you're beautiful! Yes, you're doing fine!' But I feel like a child when I'm an actress.

  

  Maiwenn
  • Good
  • Real
  • Beautiful

• People come up to me and say, 'You changed my life.' I don't think I changed anyone's life. I think their life changed while they were listening to the music.

  

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