Bernard Sumner Quotes
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A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.
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Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.
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When I was making my first films, I was very interested in Hollywood B movies.
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We're playing the same songs, the same way, that we have for years.
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I'm trying to make perfect moments. And those generate meaning. If you go deep enough in how to make a moment, very quickly you come to how narrative works - to what we are as a species, how we've come up with telling stories in scenes and images.
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It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark.
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Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written those books.
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It's like deja-vu, all over again.
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I have been very encouraged by President Obama's call to action on climate change both at his Inauguration and in the State of the Union Address. This is a global imperative. I also welcome President Obama's intention to pursue reductions in nuclear arsenals.
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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
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My parents have sailed around the world; they know what can happen and that it's not always fun, but because I want to do it so much, they agreed and supported me.
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'...reality’s always dull, you know...'
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Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.
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History has done a great disservice to Anne Boleyn.
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I don't have the attention span for sports.
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English majors understand human nature better than economists do.
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Anything to do with the South resonates with me, because I'm Southern.
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I never thought I would see a free South Sudan.
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Poe wrote like a drunkard and a man who is not accustomed to pay his debts.
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I was a weird but definite kid, and there were essentially no gender roles for me to fit into.
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To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
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With the arrogance of youth, I thought, 'I don't drink, don't smoke, I don't do drugs, so why would I get cancer?' The week I spent waiting for the result of the biopsy to see if it was malignant felt like the longest of my life.
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The video aside, 'P.D.A' is a song about when you really love somebody, you just can't resist wanting to show that out in public sometimes.
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Landscape affects you.