Eliot Paulina Sumner Quotes
I kind of got inspired by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge - I went the old traditional way of finding inspiration, I guess.
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I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
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I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.
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The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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It's good - it's great when somebody who is 20 years younger than you comes up and says, 'Wow, we just got turned on to you guys, and you're really great,' or something like that. I like that.
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America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others.
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Don't forget we are in a state of war and no peace. But it's very dynamic and challenging compared to the rest of the Arab world.
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Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
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I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills.
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My perspective is the Earth will be here. It just may not be habitable to our life form. We get confused. We think we're the center of everything.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972.
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As a child, I was always drawn to heroic characters. I decided I wanted to act when I realised that Superman and all those gangsters and Indians were just real people in costume.
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Somebody might get criticized for doing some movie that totally sucks, then turn around and be incredible. Every actor goes through that, not just musicians who act.
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I made a few records here and there by default, but I wasn't ever comfortable in that role. I wasn't comfortable on stage. We'll see how it goes this time.
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We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas.
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If my children were hungry I should think I would steal to feed them.
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'Star Trek' was always a little bit closed emotionally. I never connected to the characters.
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Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.
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College totally changed my life. It changed what I believe and what I think about everything. I majored in philosophy.
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All people - white, black, whatever - are tribal in the sense that we relate to that which is familiar to us.
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He who frames the question wins the debate.
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... a penny saved is better than a penny earned.
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I kind of got inspired by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge - I went the old traditional way of finding inspiration, I guess.
