Bernard Sumner Quotes
I think when you're in your 20s, going from adolescence to about 24, I think your life is a series of emotional storms that you have to weather. Life is more emotional at that time, and you're less equipped to deal with what life throws at you. I always think that if you can get past 24, than life really starts at that point.
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When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.
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One of my favorite things about what I do for a living is that there is no certainty that, at any hour of any day, I could get a phone call that could change everything. Good or bad. I never know.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.
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That's one of the things I miss most about Australia - the countryside.
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I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.
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The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
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There was an ingredient used in perfumes and remedies in the Middle Ages called 'momie' that is certainly one of the most fascinating I've come across.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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As far as money goes, there's a saying in Denmark: 'Your last suit doesn't have any pockets.' You can't take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?
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We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.
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That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.
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Horseback riding is my passion. Other than work. People can't imagine me getting dirty, but that's what I love about it.
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No one's promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.
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The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.
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A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
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I've done a lot of self-improvement. I'm always working on being a better person.
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Vague a l'ame - melancholy yearning for the end of the world.
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When I am not desperate, I am worthless.
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Life gets so ridiculous, you just have to brush it off like sand and laugh. I think the laughter is good medicine for crap-itis.
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I think when you're in your 20s, going from adolescence to about 24, I think your life is a series of emotional storms that you have to weather. Life is more emotional at that time, and you're less equipped to deal with what life throws at you. I always think that if you can get past 24, than life really starts at that point.
