Eliot Sumner Quotes
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.
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If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas.
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Experiencing those moments of being alone... is a very, very weird flooring and exposing position to be in when you're just not used to it... But I've never been lonely. And with my kids Mia and Joe that remains the case.
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I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.
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On 'Grey's Anatomy' I wouldn't care what I was playing - I would play a corpse, 'cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.
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I am not going to stop speaking out on behalf of policies that I think are right - regardless of ideology, party or political expediency.
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The amygdala plays a crucial role in processing fear, and minus her two amygdalae, S.M. became unflappable. Studies of her are actually a hoot to read, since they basically consist of scientists concocting ever-more-elaborate ways of trying to scare her.
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I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.
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One person seeking glory doesn't accomplish very much.
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Everyone tells me to play as long as you can. Sometimes, it goes in one ear and out the other.
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I was born in 1991, and 'Harry Potter' came out in '97, so, you know, I was really obsessed. I used to read them in one night.
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Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.
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I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.
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While the United States has largely been missing in action from the diplomatic game, the European Union and Iran have been making progress at developing a formula that would lead to the suspension of Iran's nuclear enrichment program and the start of serious negotiations.
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'Vogue' is a very beautiful magazine, an institution, and I learned so much working there.
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Coach Morris wasn't too hard on me, not at all. Being drafted where I was at, there were high expectations for me. I still have high expectations for myself.
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'La Lupe' is my passion project. I've done it as a one-woman show, but I'm raising money to turn it into a film. It's a story of a Cuban singer who became the Queen of Latin Soul, the first woman on the N.Y. salsa scene.
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It seems that, every several months, you have to expect there is going to be a terrorist incident or that there could be a terrorist incident somewhere. Right away, you're thinking, 'What are the consequences? Is this the first part of a larger attack? Is it coordinated, or a lone wolf?'
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It is not enough to want to get rid of one’s sins, we also need to believe in the One who saves us from our sins.
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Disappointment always arrives before hope and the darkness of night comes before the dawn. Don't lose hope now because things will brighter with the new day.
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Obviously, there are moments that you look back at and cringe - things in the past involving violence or disrespect to women or disrespect to other people that are so far away from what I want to put out there now. But it's actually a privilege to be able to change and be making records that reflect that change.
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It's not a nice thing to have a song written about you.
