Eliot Paulina Sumner Quotes
People in London are so much more exposed to danger, or bad things. It took me quite a long time to grow up in that environment.
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Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.
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People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids.
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I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.
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I've had many incidents in my life of racism. I've been thrown on the ground. I've been frisked. I've been arrested so many times I couldn't tell you. I have no need to talk about it.
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When you grow up around it, I just watched my father work really hard. He wasn't around as much as I would have liked. And when I grew up, I understood why.
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Love is a credulous thing.
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I was trying to establish an identity in music, and black and white had nothing to do with it.
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I played piano growing up. I played classical piano since I was 5, and I sang in choirs, and I sang in plays and musicals.
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I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.
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Since Sandy Hook, I have sat back as a father and been mesmerized by the inability of the federal government to do anything substantively on gun safety.
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I think that addiction is a very, very important thing that has to be treated, but has to be treated as a health problem and not as a police problem.
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We gon' be around for a long time.
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Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.
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Classics isn't about the ancient world. It's partly about the ancient world, but it's about our conversation. It's how we try to talk to antiquity.
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We don't want to be reminded that life ends at some point, so they don't put older people on the screen.
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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'Supermodel' was a hard record for me; it was an emotional record to write. I was purging a lot of stuff with that album, and I think the one thing I didn't really consider, that I'd be supporting it for two years and living in that state of mind every night.
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The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.
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I want somebody like my mom. My mom is a very charitable woman. She's the sweetest woman in the world. I'm looking for the second sweetest woman in the world. I'm looking for honesty and a big heart.
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Forget Paula Dean; when it comes to on-air celebrity chefs, no one makes my stomach go pitter-patter more than Chef Anthony Bourdain. He is absolutely fearless.
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I'm very close to my family.
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I exclude the hypothesis of complete originality on Charles Lever's part, because a man can no more be completely original in that sense than a tree can grow out of air.
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Surround yourself with people whose definition of you is not based on your history, but your destiny.
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People in London are so much more exposed to danger, or bad things. It took me quite a long time to grow up in that environment.
