Bernard Sumner Quotes
I tend to think in images and feelings rather than non-abstract concepts.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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 a woman feels ugly when she's got the wrong man at her side.
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I have to be cautious, have my thyroid levels checked, and as long as I do that, I'm fine.
Gail Devers -
No one knows for sure if you can inherit a stammer, and so I worry that my baby might. It's why I want to work on my speech before he arrives. I don't want him to hear me stammer.
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By wrecking something, it's always reinventing. All modern movements in art and music wrecked what came before, in a way - and surprised the cooler generation that was one step ahead. That's how you get ahead.
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Statistically, Portland, Oregon has the most street kids, like kids that run away from home and live on the street. It's like a whole culture thing there. If you walk around on the streets, there are kids living on the streets, begging for money, but it's almost like a cool thing. They all just sit around and play music and squat.
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Every time I go to Africa, I feel like I hit true north. There is a depth of feeling that I have for the continent, in the richness of the people, the suffering , but also the transcendent joy that is there - it's like nowhere else on the planet.
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If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.
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I tend to think in images and feelings rather than non-abstract concepts.
