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 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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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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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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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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Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it's creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn't mean I know how to fix them.
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I believe things happen that can't be explained, but so many people seem intent on explaining them. Everyone has an answer for them. Either aliens or things from the spirit world.
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My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.
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When it comes to helping make the country strong, we in Congress have an important role to play.
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Music is the only art that actually lives.
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You want to make decisions that are meaningful to you, and that are going to continue to enhance you being who you really are and what your message to the world is, and everybody has one. The real important thing is to know what that message is and how you want to carry that forward.
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Being an insomniac only slows me down. I try not to write at night, as I'm concerned that this will affect the quality.
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Sometimes the way to a man's heart is through his talleywacker.
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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.
