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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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
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Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.
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Eating is one of the great pleasures of life.
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I naturally favour a clean, healthy diet. A salad sandwich is one of my favourite meals!
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What I love about piano and vocal is it's incredibly pure, and it gets down to the essence of the song because you're not distracted by an orchestra. When it's just a piano and a voice, it's about the purity of singing the song.
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Every boy grows up trying to be like his father, but what if a boy grows up to be like his mother?
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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.
