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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If the Trump campaign, or anybody associated with it, aided or abetted the Russians, it would not only be a serious crime, it would also represent one of the most shocking betrayals of our democracy in history.
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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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Then another thing, now this is mainly for our interest about Tibet, our struggle. Whole struggle depend on within person. For dangerous. Foolish! Not for this only institution or even not only for Buddhist dogma, but before national sort of right, our right. So therefore this struggle must carried by people themselves.
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I've gotten to be part of a lot of incredible tours and have learned so much from the people I've had the opportunity to open for.
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All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.
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Architecture is changing faster than some other professions.
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Landscape affects you.
