Eliot Sumner Quotes
With social networks these days, everyone needs to know everything all the time. But the problem is, people are so used to short snippets of information that no one has any attention span anymore. I don't, anyway.
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I want to go into science class and awaken that spark that makes learning possible.
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When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.
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I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
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I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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Are your people uncomfortable during meetings and tired at the end? If not, they're probably not mixing it up enough and getting to the bottom of important issues.
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Producing should be a creative responsibility.
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The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.
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A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.
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I think that was the case here. We just wanted it to be good for everybody.
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I'm stronger and sassier as a redhead.
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It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the developing world.
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I'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people.
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Vera Caspary wrote thrillers - but not like any other author of her time, male or female. Her specialty was a specific type that she pioneered - the psycho thriller.
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For as long as I can remember, we've been having debates about the foreign policy disasters and seemingly unsolvable problems around the world. Dinner conversations are replayed over generations - nothing seems to get better, and in some aspects, it seems dramatically worse, and that is especially true for women.
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How we get power, how cars are powered, when the technology and resources to have something that is infinitely better, we still use old-school technology. We're still using that same exact structure.
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I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.
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Any novel of importance has a purpose. If only the "purpose" be large enough, and not at outs with the passional inspiration.
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I don't like to post fresh standup material, because I want to use it in a special. The stuff I like to post online I like to be off-the-cuff moments.
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During this period, with a series of excellent students, we further studied hyperon decays.
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I've reread 'The Secret Garden' every year as an adult. I have a battered copy on my bookshelf - it's really quite a mess! The experience of reading the novel keeps deepening for me.
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All through school, people told me I looked like Marcia Brady.
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With social networks these days, everyone needs to know everything all the time. But the problem is, people are so used to short snippets of information that no one has any attention span anymore. I don't, anyway.
