Bernard Sumner Quotes
I like a challenge. I like learning new skills because I didn't learn much at school.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm afraid to fail again.
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I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.
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It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.
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Once I had started film, I suddenly said, 'Wow, I love it.' I moved there from New York. But I've always gone back to the theater, and it is more satisfying, really, because you get to give a continuous performance - no sequels.
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The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.
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Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.
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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
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Amen is not the end of a prayer, it just gets us ready to go to the next level.
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Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
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To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
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There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.
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Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.
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To be successful for a moment because of one movie doesn't mean anything.
Nastassja Kinski -
The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.
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The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.
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If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'What's the party going on right now that I should be going to?'
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I can't pretend that I'm a great student of the art of comedy because anybody that becomes philosophical about humour doesn't know what he's talking about.
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If I were to pray in Arabic, I'd pray to Allah. If I were to pray in English, I'd pray to God.
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I'm no wizard, and I don't like being thought of in that light at all. I think of a wizard as being some sort of magician or something, doing something on the sly or something, and I don't want to be thought of in that way.
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I work out four days a week in the off-season, and in the warm, running weather months, I do five days. A push/pull regime of weightlifting, cycling, and the occasional Saturday or Sunday run with my oldest son, even if it's cold out.
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I had a ton of energy, ran around like crazy - more than a handful for my dad. I was crazy. Dad barely handled it. I was never diagnosed ADHD or anything like that, but I'm pretty sure I had it when I was younger. It's the only thing that would explain me getting into trouble all the time.
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There appear to be as many learning styles among prodigies as there are prodigies to express them.
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I love solving puzzles, I love finding my way around obstacles, and I love learning new things about technology.
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I like a challenge. I like learning new skills because I didn't learn much at school.
