Jeffrey Bernard Quotes

One of the things that goes with getting older is that one becomes more conservative - and I emphasise that when I use the word conservative I do not mean politically.

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• Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.

  

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• When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.

  

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• Playing baseball is fun. If I could play, I'd never retire. But managing is work. It's constant decisions of whose feelings you want to hurt all the time.

  

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• 'But,' say the puling, pusillanimous cowards, 'we shall be subject to a long and bloody war if we declare independence.' On the contrary, I affirm it the only step that can bring the contest to a speedy and happy issue.

  

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• The '90s was a decade of mundane market-consumer nothingness where there was nothing coming up from the streets; you just had someone in an office deciding what was cool.

  

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• Media is extraordinarily important and is an extraordinarily powerful tool. There's a reason that the first things that a rebellion or revolt will take is the media. The story you transmit is the story that becomes a given, or the narrative of a country and people.

  

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• In my opinion, there is one singular problem with religions in general: they are exclusive. To me, this exclusivity is not right.

  

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• I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

  

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• Feel ashamed of my generation. We've let down our children and their children.

  

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• I am a self-taught water skier and wind surfer.

  

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• Partisanship is not necessarily a bad thing. It leads to new leadership and new opportunities.

  

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• I have no sense of a model or predecessor when I write a memoir: For me, the form exists as a method of processing material that retains too many connections to life to be approached strictly and aesthetically. A memoir is a risk, a one-off, a bastard child.

  

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• The year 1983 was crazy. People wanted to sell not only their investments... but also their companies.

  

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• Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.

  

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• I always talk about my characters like they're real people.

  

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• You see the amount of bullying and negativity that goes on social media that is really, really intense, and I feel lucky that I came of age before all of that came on.

  

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• I don't know. I'd be a lot better off if I would've studied more when I was growing up, you know?

  

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• Me and my family used to have a Christian covers band together... like rock Christian music, upbeat, all in Indonesian. The band was called Roasted Peanuts.

  

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• When you go through hell, your own personal hell, and you have lost - loss of fame, loss of money, loss of career, loss of family, loss of love, loss of your own identity that I experienced in my own life - and you've been able to face the demons that have haunted you... I appreciate everything that I have.

  

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• One of the things that goes with getting older is that one becomes more conservative - and I emphasise that when I use the word conservative I do not mean politically.

  

  Jeffrey Bernard