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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I think it's possible that China is ready for a serious change regarding its North Korean defector policy. Chinese people are starting to realize that so many defectors have been suffering in China, and it doesn't have to be this way.
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People would never begin to pray if they could not ask for earthly things like riches and health and honours; He says to Himself: If they ask for such things the desire for something better will awaken in them, and finally they will only care about the higher things.
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The cloud of doubt that surrounds political figures tends to remain and never dissipate or be clarified.
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You are what you are.
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I know that I come from mid-20th century America, urban, specifically downtown New York, specifically an Italian-American area, Roman Catholic - that's who I am. And a part of what I know is there's a decency to people who tried to make a living in the kind of world that was around us and also the Skid Row area of the Bowery; it impressed me.
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I tend to think in images and feelings rather than non-abstract concepts.
