Bernard Sumner Quotes
Playing live is great, but it's not a creative thing, really. It's a reproductive thing.
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I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece.
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If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.
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I went to high school in Los Angeles, and I grew up riding horses, so that was kind of my life. I always wanted to act.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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To be very honest, I never thought I would graduate from high school. I got very lucky to get into an alternative high school, which really saved my butt.
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There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, 'look!'
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I met Bon Jovi on the way to Washington, D.C. I think I called him Jon Jovi. Ugghhhh. I just smiled and pretended it didn't happen. I love him and his wife; they're so sweet. I was very nervous.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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One of the rules of the road is that if you want to create the sense of silence, it frequently has more pungency if you include the tiniest of sounds. By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it and what other things you don't hear, you can not only help tell the story, you can help the audience get into the mind of the character.
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Turning 18 is a big deal.
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But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
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Time was God's first creation.
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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
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Living in Malibu is like being in a bubble, so discovering others that are so different from me has been incredibly gratifying.
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I will say that rowing in the first Olympics was probably one of the most proud moments in my life. What I enjoy about the sport is that it's definitive. Nobody can take away from the fact that you're an Olympian. It's indisputable. You get there on merit and merit alone.
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Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man.
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The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.
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I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.
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People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.
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Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.
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Of course the job has a lot of glamour. But it really is about being smarter than your average bear. Your mind is your best weapon. It's great when you're a good shot with an AK-47, but it's about being clever.
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Great changes start with individuals; the basis of world peace is inner peace in the hearts of individuals.
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Playing live is great, but it's not a creative thing, really. It's a reproductive thing.
