Bernard Sumner Quotes
If you're a lead singer, then you can't afford to be sensitive. On stage, everyone looks at the lead singer, even if you don't want them to - in America, they have those massive follow spots on you all the time; it does your head in. So, if you are a lead singer and you don't toughen up, you're in the wrong job, and you have to get out.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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Gradual development of flight should begin with the simplest apparatus and movements, and without time complication of dynamic means.
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A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.
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If you're a lead singer, then you can't afford to be sensitive. On stage, everyone looks at the lead singer, even if you don't want them to - in America, they have those massive follow spots on you all the time; it does your head in. So, if you are a lead singer and you don't toughen up, you're in the wrong job, and you have to get out.
