Bernard Sumner Quotes

New Order has always been a hybrid band. We always mixed guitar, bass, drums with electronic.

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• Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Everything
  • Build
  • Cinema

• I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Beauty

• My fans are so loving and encouraging. They're with me on good days and bad days.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Fans

• Are you loving having these great iconic stories back as much as I am? 'One Life' is back in action and I love putting my 'Blair on' again.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
  • Life
  • Great
  • Love

• I think I view the system the same way that Ayn Rand views the system - that it really oppresses those that create, if you will, and tries to take away from those that produce and give to the non-producers.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Think
  • Same
  • View

• The best song is what resonates with that one person the most. It's why, if you ask a million people on the face of the Earth, they're all gonna have different favorite songs, their own best song ever, because that's the one that touched them the most.

  

  Vince Staples
  • People
  • Different
  • Why

• We saw - we conducted the experiment. I mean, it's been done. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. We saw Apple without Steve Jobs. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. Now, we're gonna see Apple without Steve Jobs.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Done
  • See
  • Apple

• All of our forebears contributed to what South Africa has become. That does not, however, mean that I must apologize to anyone for being born a Zulu, or for having that culture.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • Culture
  • Mean
  • Africa

• Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Struggle
  • Possible
  • Once

• If there was a way to discourage trash constitutionally, I would sure as heck take a hard look at it. I don't think there is. So I don't think there's a choice here.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Think
  • Look
  • Choice

• I have roles in plays that I hope that I'll be able to do one day. I might be doing them at, like, the East Wilton Playhouse in wherever. But I think that Edie Falco... to get something even resembling her type of roles, that would be amazing.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Hope
  • Day
  • Amazing

• Like so many poor Ilokanos, my grandparents left their village, for it could no longer sustain them. The Ilocos is a narrow coastal plain where, so often, the mountain drops to the sea. Land hunger had always afflicted the Ilokanos and made them migratory.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Sea
  • Mountain
  • Grandparents

• I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • Political
  • Feeling
  • Hate

• I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.

  

  Irving Stone
  • Art
  • Religious
  • Thought

• As an actor, you're sort of the court-appointed lawyer for the character.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Character
  • Actor
  • Lawyer

• The human race is a very, very magical race. We have a magic power of witches and wizards. We're here on this earth to unravel the mystery of this planet. The planet is asking for it.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Power
  • Earth
  • Magic

• I wanted to come back with the team I grew up with.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Up
  • Team
  • Back

• If you start trying to figure out yourself from the image everyone has of you, you run into a dead end.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Trying
  • End
  • Yourself

• It’s a song about first relationships and letting go. It’s very rare for a relationship to withstand the Earth’s gravitational pull and where it’s going to take people and how they’re going to grow. I’ve heard it said that you can’t really have a true love unless it was a love unrequited. It’s a harsh one, because then your truest one is the one you can’t have forever.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Song
  • Relationships
  • True Love

• Really, children will support anything that is empowering to them.

  

  Robert Rodriguez Chingon
  • Children
  • Empowering

• You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and go, 'This is the first comedy show I've ever seen,' so you want to do well. If you do horribly at somebody's first time seeing live stand-up, well, you've not only tainted yourself, you've tainted a whole art form.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• The Millennium Stadium thing was for the Tsunami concert. It was a thing that I think every band in the country would have liked to be a part of at the time that it happened.

  

  Kelly Jones
  • Time
  • Country
  • Band

• New Order has always been a hybrid band. We always mixed guitar, bass, drums with electronic.

  

  Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant
  • Band