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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He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.
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The Federal Reserve has always recognized the importance of allowing markets to work, and government oversight of financial firms will never be fully effective without the aid of strong market discipline.
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The truth is that I'm not very disciplined with diets. In general, I do whatever makes me happy in life, and food makes me quite happy!
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When you get pure joy out of 'being' rather than 'doing' or 'seeing', that's when you realize how big and unexplainable some things are and being a dad is one of those very few things.
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Landscape affects you.
