Bernard Sumner Quotes

My mother, Laura Sumner, had cerebral palsy. She was born absolutely fine, but after about three days, she started having convulsions that left her with a condition that would confine her to a wheelchair her entire life.

Bernard Sumner

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LifeMotherBornThreeSheDays

My listening changed when I heard music from Stax, Atlantic, Motown because by that age I thought anything that my parents listened to must be square. So I had to find my own rock n' roll, as it were, and I found it in black soul music.

Robert Palmer

MusicAgeSoulParentsListening

The brain sits snugly inside the skull, but it's not a completely flush fit - there is still a layer of fluid between bone and soft tissue that serves as a natural shock absorber. Some shocks, however, can't be absorbed, and when the head gets clobbered too hard, the brain can twist or torque or rattle around inside its skeletal casing.

Jeffrey Kluger

BrainInsideHardHeadSkullTwist

Execution is everything.

Jeff Bridges

ExecutionEverything

A man sits in his car at the traffic lights, waiting for them to go green.

Michael Frayn

CarManWaitingGreenLightsGo

I think we can continue to do as much protesting as we want. Systemic racism needs to be changed from within.

Michael Ealy

RacismThinkWantWithinChanged

I have hardly any friends who aren't gay.

Tracey Emin

FriendsGayWhoAnyHardly

The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill.

Robert Anton Wilson

BorderPlaceRealWhereLastJust

Women like men who listen. We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen twice as much as we speak.

Josh Bowman

WomenMenSpeakMouthListenTwo

I have a big bias to the people who understand global aspects.

Dinesh Paliwal

PeopleUnderstandBiasBigGlobal

I certainly have never been an actor who can play the Everyman guy - or, I don't tend to get those parts. I've tended to play eccentrics. I've played a lot of villains, of course.

Christopher Walken

PlayActorNeverGuyGetBeen

Serena Williams is my sports idol.

Christen Press

SportsIdolWilliams

On behalf of the federal government, I wish now publicly to appeal to the provinces to lend their co-operation in furthering our country's war effort by effecting at as early a date as may be possible this much needed restriction.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

GovernmentWarEffortWishEarly

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