Bernard Sumner Quotes

I tend to think in images and feelings rather than non-abstract concepts.

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• One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Truth
  • Always
  • Try

• The correlation of quality of life and cost of energy is huge.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Life
  • Energy
  • Quality

• I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.

  

  Manfred von Richthofen
  • Good
  • Work
  • Learning

• Accomplish something every day of your life.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Life
  • Day
  • Everyday

• I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Business
  • Find
  • Act

• I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Writing
  • Poetry
  • English

• Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Lose
  • Praise
  • Half

• When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.

  

  Patricia Sun
  • Black
  • Painting
  • Lie

• I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Musicians

• I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'

  

  Daniel Curtis Lee
  • Think
  • Like
  • Young

• There are dodgy characters in Bitcoin. But there are dodgy characters in cash, too.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Characters
  • Cash
  • Bitcoin

• I loved Interpol when they came out, but I never wanted to be in Interpol.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Never
  • Wanted
  • Loved

• You hear about Broadway your whole life, and I learned what it meant to work on Broadway in 'The Phantom of the Opera.'

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Life
  • Work
  • Broadway

• Speaking for myself, my very integrity as a human being needs to include my freedom to explore who I am both spiritually and sexually. Not just to explore - but to practice.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Freedom
  • Myself
  • Practice

• I've always challenged myself and the people who work with me to take new approaches to traditional business challenges, to push the envelope and constantly ask whether our sacred cows are still producing great milk.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass or does it come in like honey?

  

  Eddie Condon
  • Broken
  • Honey
  • Glass

• I love the novels of Didion and Bret Ellis and consider them L.A. writers because they write about L.A.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Write
  • Writers
  • Novels

• Children find prescriptive reading lists daunting, and they are a dangerous thing to have in schools.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Children
  • Reading
  • Find

• The only thing that makes change possible is the idea of developing some kind of institution, because the institutions will survive individuals.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Change
  • Kind
  • Survive

• Fundamentally, footballers don't look around a dressing room and think, 'He's a black player... he's Japanese.' They don't think like that. They think, 'He's a good player; he can help. He's not very good.' I'm not trying to defend anyone's actions, but there are going to be isolated incidents because it's an emotive, passionate sport.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Help

• One of the odd things about being a writer is that you never reach a point of certainty, a point of mastery where you can say, 'Right. Now I understand how this is done.'

  

  Jenny Offill
  • Done

• They are deceptively simple. I admit that. But for me, all my life I try to simplify things. As a child in school, things were very hard for me to understand often, and I developed a knack, I think. I developed a process to simplify things so I would understand them.

  

  Eric Carle
  • Life
  • School
  • Simple

• I'm so fascinated by the influence of social media on fashion. I've seen so many artists on Instagram, up and comers you would have never known otherwise.

  

  Edward Enninful
  • Up
  • Fashion

• I tend to think in images and feelings rather than non-abstract concepts.

  

  Bernard Sumner Joy Division