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.
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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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We all want to pretend that there isn't evil in the world. We all want to pretend that there aren't people trying to take us out and different things like that.
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Ossie Davis is one of my heroes for civil rights and things like that.
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Being known as a writer did change the relationships I had with directors. The rap on actors is that they always want to inflate their parts. But when directors know you write screenplays and have a different view of things, you really get invited into the huddle in a much fuller way. And those collaborations end in friendships.
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On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least.
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I began graduate school in the late 1980s, and my goal was to understand how morality varied across cultures and nations. I did some research comparing moral judgment in India and the U.S.A.
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I like a challenge. I like learning new skills because I didn't learn much at school.
