Eliot Sumner Quotes
I started listening to a lot of Jimi Hendrix and Neil Young when I was 8 or 9 years old - I had siblings that gave me good music instead of the crap that was on the radio in the '90s.
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I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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As Governor, I've worked to solve problems the New Hampshire way - bringing together Democrats, Republicans and Independents to help hard-working Granite Staters adapt to our changing economy so that everyone has the opportunity to get ahead and stay ahead.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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What we cannot deny is that there's an association between exclusion, segregation, non-violent extremist thinking, and jihadism.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.
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How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.
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I grew up in a little town in Minnesota, 500 people. I went out to Princeton, and I wasn't very well-accepted out there by the fancy folks of Princeton University, I felt. I came away bruised and feeling rejected.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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A lot of times, when you're the leading lady, you get to sing heartwarming songs and that's it, and people don't get a sense of who you truly are.
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It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it.
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Most British cheeses are now vegetarian and are labelled accordingly. However, French and Italian manufacturers still tend to use rennet.
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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
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I love Japan; it's very special.
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Which country in the world has the kind of talent India has in numbers?
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Every one, though born of God in an instant, yet undoubtedly grows by slow degrees.
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The automatic bread maker is not as good as breads made by hand, but waking up to the smell of fresh bread is worth the price of admission. We use it for fresh cinnamon raisin toast - mmmmmmm!
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The musicians that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no musicians who know all about music playin' for me.
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I completely love music. I used to be the music critic at 'The Improper Bostonian.' It's just something I've always loved very deeply.
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I started listening to a lot of Jimi Hendrix and Neil Young when I was 8 or 9 years old - I had siblings that gave me good music instead of the crap that was on the radio in the '90s.
