Bernard Sumner Quotes
If you choose to take a path in life, don't blame other people for the path you've chosen to take.
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I'm the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test.
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I could go and make commercials left and right and pretend like I am a celebrity, but that is not me.
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From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.
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There is a strong sentiment within the Tea Party that favors a stronger America on the global stage, and with that comes a strong alliance with the State of Israel.
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I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.
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I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
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I think the key to getting rid of illegal immigration, no matter where its coming from, is that you need to have a good legal apparatus for immigration.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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Bruckner's Eighth is a colossus.
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I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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As long as my family's OK, I'll be fine.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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Casting my fate to the heavens, quite literally, I decided to go wireless. Completely wireless. All wireless, all the time, everywhere.
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Your life goes on, and then your life goes on plus 'Star Wars.' It's just been an incredible time.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
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There's so much to learn about acting and performance in general... I mean, acting is a very complex art, and there are a lot more theories and methods and techniques to it than I think anybody would think.
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I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old.
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A mentor, a 'teacher,' is like an editor. I absolutely value my editor, who is my teacher.
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Google is really committed to improving everything. So it has been really fun to participate in all of their different moonshots.
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I'm not into bands for the sake of being into bands. I've grown past that. There was a time in my life when I was that guy.
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In 'The Interestings' I wanted to write about what happens to talent over time. In some people talent blooms, in others it falls away.
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If you choose to take a path in life, don't blame other people for the path you've chosen to take.
