Eliot Sumner Quotes

I like to write from a slightly sad or complicated place. But with a sense of hope and happiness at the same time.

Eliot Sumner

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• I think my thing is that... I don't know. And that's why I don't wanna sing about 'This is me, this is who I am' because, like, even the question, 'Tell me about yourself' - what are you supposed to say? 'Ooh, I'm a happy girl, but I'm sad, too'? People are so complex.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • People
  • Why
  • Happy

• Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount of factual historical record about the life of a prophet and about social conditions in Arabia at that time. So it's possible to look at the origin of Islam in a scholarly way.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• I hope I don't just sit around moping for two years.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Hope
  • Years
  • Two

• I know theater can improve the quality of people's lives, and I know theater can heal. I've worked as a doctor clown in a hospital for two years. I have seen sick kids and sad parents and doctors be lifted and transported in moments of pure joy. I know theater unites us.

  

  Natasha Tsakos
  • People
  • Kids
  • Parents

• I respect Lady Gaga very much.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Respect
  • Very
  • Lady

• This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Time
  • True
  • Want

• I spent a lot of time with the LAPD. I spent six weeks training, weapons training, ride-alongs, surveillance, interviewing them, in all different departments and divisions.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Time
  • Different
  • Training

• I may have managed to build a successful technology startup that had gone public by the time my three kids hit their 13th birthdays, but don't think that bought my wife and me any special respect from our teenagers.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Time
  • May
  • Kids

• Risk is the sort of word that is easy to discuss upfront but tough to handle when it comes time to pay the piper. There will always be some who wimp out and second-guess when the pain hits, but that is a childish reaction.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Time
  • Pain
  • Risk

• There have been periods of my career that I haven't worked for a really long time, like seven or eight months.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Time
  • Long
  • Career

• Hamish and I rarely go to launches or parties any more but prefer to spend our time hanging out together.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Time
  • Together
  • More

• I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Time
  • Long
  • Money

• I think that God prepared me for Chris's death in some ways, because I've seen other people lose their spouses. I've known for a long time that life isn't fair.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I want to make sure that people know that I can only be myself - I can't be a spokesperson for people with disabilities, because everybody has a completely different experience. I'm glad that I'm able to inspire parents to see one way to deal with it, but at the same time, I tell a lot of dirty jokes.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• I tell inmates all the time, 'Don't complain about your grind. Do your time.'

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Time
  • Grind
  • Complain

• I live in Canada in the summer and some time in the fall.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Time
  • Live
  • Fall

• When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Life
  • Time
  • Fight

• That's why charity work is very selfish at the same time, because it makes you feel good.

  

  Maria Menounos
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• I remember doing stand-up at an open mic a long time ago, and the MC was like, 'Who's next?' I said, 'Marietta Sirleaf,' and he was like, 'What?' And I was like, 'Ugh, okay, just Retta.' It stuck with me ever since.

  

  Retta
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Doing

• It's one of the few regrets of my presidency - that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better. There's no doubt a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might have better bridged the divide, and I guarantee I'll keep trying to be better so long as I hold this office.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Long
  • Trying
  • Doubt

• There are hits and misses, and as an actress, we are mentally ready for all that.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Ready
  • Actress
  • Hits

• Screen credit is valuable only when it's given you. If you're in a position to give yourself credit, you don't need it.

  

  Irving Thalberg

• I like to write from a slightly sad or complicated place. But with a sense of hope and happiness at the same time.

  

  Eliot Sumner
  • Time
  • Hope
  • Sad