Bernard Sumner Quotes
I'm sure every time I bring something out that isn't New Order, people say it sounds like New Order.
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
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The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.
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Being on 'The Vampire Diaries' feels almost like a game you play when you're a kid. When I was a kid, I used to have to take the garbage out at night on Wednesdays. I lived out in the country. I'd take the garbage out, and I used to pretend that I was the only person in the whole world, except for one other person, and he was looking for me.
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The vampires in the 'VAMPS' series judge each other as harshly as they judge humans, and basically, vampires don't get along very well. So you've got a culture that's from cradle to grave like the worst high school you've ever been in.
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We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as well.
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Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.
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I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.
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Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20 or 30 of them and then come tell me that the message at the heart of every column isn't, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' In every possible sense.
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When I was 13, I thought I was pretty hot stuff because I knew BASIC programming, self-taught on the family's Commodore 64. One of my crowning accomplishments was writing a silly little program that showed a crudely-drawn Space Shuttle lifting off in a cloud of pixelated smoke.
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I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.
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Frankly, Milan kind of sucks as a restaurant city. It's so fashion-obsessed that people don't pay that much attention to the food.
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In midlife, I feel that my tendency to acquire books is rather like someone smoking two packs a day: it's a terrible vice that I wish I could shuck.
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Trump is literally the epitome of evil, all the evils of this country - be it racism, capitalism, sexism, homophobia.
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What keeps me going is that young people still want to see me.
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I'm sure every time I bring something out that isn't New Order, people say it sounds like New Order.
