Bernard Sumner Quotes
I tend to think in images and feelings rather than non-abstract concepts.
Quotes to Explore
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
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The correlation of quality of life and cost of energy is huge.
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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.
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Accomplish something every day of your life.
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I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.
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I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.
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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
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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.
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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.
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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!'
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There are dodgy characters in Bitcoin. But there are dodgy characters in cash, too.
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I loved Interpol when they came out, but I never wanted to be in Interpol.
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You hear about Broadway your whole life, and I learned what it meant to work on Broadway in 'The Phantom of the Opera.'
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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.
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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.
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As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass or does it come in like honey?
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I love the novels of Didion and Bret Ellis and consider them L.A. writers because they write about L.A.
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Children find prescriptive reading lists daunting, and they are a dangerous thing to have in schools.
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It is very important to be humble but to maintain the conviction that we can do something good.
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I love long sentences. My big heroes of fiction writing are Henry James and Proust - people who recognise that life doesn't consist of declarative statements, but rather modifications, qualifications and feelings.
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There is no body of ancient literature in the world which enjoys such a wealth of good textual attestation as the New Testament.
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There's a stereotype that to be a strong black woman is to be strong about being black.
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In planes, everybody pees on the floor. Fact.
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I tend to think in images and feelings rather than non-abstract concepts.
