Eliot Sumner Quotes
I was very young when I did 'I Blame Coco,' and I never really recognized that sound as me.
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I think because Sport Lux has come in and leisure wear is a new thing, girls can sneak in hoodies and leggings and so on where they wouldn't normally - it has been proper legitimate fashion.
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What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away from where it has been the last 50 to 100 to 150 years, back to Asia?
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A good school teaches you resilience - that ability to bounce back.
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I'm fascinated by the capacity to be able to do harm. I struggle every day with the ability of people to do evil. Not just the big things - the petty things that people do in order to make someone feel small, when it's so easy to do, and it hurts so much.
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I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.
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Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different.
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Nuclear energy is a baseload - meaning it's power that you can run any time you want, day or night - and carbon-free.
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I don't think my background in Zambia has really affected my lens because my classical training has been Western-style. But it's fantastically fortuitous to have been born African because I don't feel I have a vested interest to the U.S. or China or wherever.
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The artists that we grew up listening to was also independent like Master P, like Birdman and Lil Wayne. Those are the people that we wanted to model ourselves after. Throwing on the Cartier frames, the army-style fatigue jackets.
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I'm not one to be like, 'What is everybody doing? Let me do that!' I just do what I want.
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I can't control what's going to happen in the future. I can't control what's going to happen in five hours. So I'm not really worried about it. I'm just focused on doing what I can at this moment.
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I try to make myself do things for other people when I'm feeling down. Like, you can call your local hospital and help out in the pediatric unit.
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As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.
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I don't do facials - I don't really enjoy people picking at my skin. I'd rather a dermatologist who's a doctor for that do that.
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'Jelly-bean' is the name throughout the undissolved Confederacy for one who spends his life conjugating the verb to idle in the first person singular - I am idling, I have idled, I will idle.
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Atheism may be defined as the mental attitude which unreservedly accepts the supremacy of reason and aims at establishing a lifestyle and ethical outlook verifiable by experience and the scientific method, independent of all arbitrary assumptions of authority and creeds.
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Teetering in between worlds with a sleepy conscious, pestilence, infinite knowledge, alienation, burning cigarettes, vibes & male seahorses.
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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
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Such a thing as ending unemployment would never occur to Washington politicians because their corporate backers depend on the threat of unemployment to keep wages down.
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You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom.
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But thanks to my invention, my capitalist friends and I were able to bring the government to its knees.
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I don't think fashion week will go back to what it used to be because people are realising that the industry is completely changing. It's not just in Bryant Park any more, people are figuring out who their audience is, where they want to show, they aren't really playing by the rules. It's not so much about these editors, these buyers.
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I was very young when I did 'I Blame Coco,' and I never really recognized that sound as me.
