Eliot Paulina Sumner Quotes
If something depressing is happening, that's gold. That's the best possible situation you could be in. But if that doesn't happen, you just have to make up stuff - it's more fun because you have more freedom with what you can write about. You can invent characters and situations. It's actually easier.
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The American tradition of Washington and Hamilton and Madison and Lincoln and TR and Pat Buchanan is of economic nationalism - making America an independent, self-sufficient, sovereign forever country that's able to stand on its own feet.
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The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
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The rich don't win elections. They support the money, but what percentage of America are rich? What is it, 2 percent? But they all have one vote.
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Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
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A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.
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My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
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Successful ventures in business or philanthropy are built around great teams who can help us overcome tremendous challenges - and have the right experiences and relationships to do so.
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God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.
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It was kind of exciting being on the radio. Not everybody was on the radio.
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I'm quite good at taking in information so I voraciously inhale Wikipedia - which may have some things wrong in it, but I think is generally more information than we had before. Last tour we didn't have Wikipedia. And then Discovery Channel and History Channel. I can take it in and retain what I think are the most important facts.
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It's like, boom! – I've got a girlfriend. It turned out to be a good thing because it made me a rapper.
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Man, double-faced by nature, is placed by Revelation under a sharp, precise external rule, controlling his actions and his thoughts.
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People don't know this, but early in your career, you don't just glide on to The Tonight Show.
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When songs make me wanna throw up, it makes me ashamed to even be in the same genre as those songs.
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I've been singing and writing songs only a little longer than acting. I really enjoy both.
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Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.
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Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger. Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions.
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'Love has a language that transcends all languages, all barriers and all distance.'
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You don't paint pictures to put them in your attic. You want people to look at them.
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Liberal learning is both a safeguard against false ideas of freedom and a source of true ones.
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As Taiwan's friend and ally, I believe it is important for the United States to monitor the situation in the Taiwan Strait very carefully to help ensure Taiwan is not forced into a position which would endanger its freedom or its democracy.
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Americans think Soviets are so grim. I want them to see that they can smile.
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...most of the people in a war never fight for even a minute-though they bear for years and die forever. They do not fight, but only starve, only suffer, only die: the sum of all this passive misery is that great activity, War.
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If something depressing is happening, that's gold. That's the best possible situation you could be in. But if that doesn't happen, you just have to make up stuff - it's more fun because you have more freedom with what you can write about. You can invent characters and situations. It's actually easier.
