Bernard Sumner Quotes
I've realized that I owe people a look behind the scenes of my own story, because I don't think anyone can have a true understanding of the music without an insight into where it came from.

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As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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I know what feels good to eat and what doesn't. I try to err on the side of choices I know will leave me feeling more energized and ready to go, because it's always better to feel healthy.
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I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
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I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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Actors don't have real value.
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It's the irrational things that interest me.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
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I don't want to hear about my death.
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Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.
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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
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I know about the sweet home. I went to school with 'em boys, what became Lynyrd Skynyrd; I knew Allen Collins, the skinny girl-beautiful guitarist. I put Allen Collins in every travel piece I do. Travel writing is harrowing, going to Bermuda with a banjo on my knee.
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I've never been strong with my time-management skills.
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I can not stay at the place when a stranger starts talking to me. I will try to cut the speech as quick as possible and move away. I had to break this inhibition before becoming an actor.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.
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One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
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The happiest hour a sailor sees Is when he's down At an inland town, With his Nancy on his knees, yo ho! And his arm around her waist!
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Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.
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What to an outsider will be no more than the vigorous presentation of a conviction, to an employee may be the manifestation of a determination which it is not safe to thwart.
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It is true, there was no public-school system, and the reason for it was very plain. The wealth of the upper classes enabled them to have private tutors.
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I've realized that I owe people a look behind the scenes of my own story, because I don't think anyone can have a true understanding of the music without an insight into where it came from.