Eliot Sumner Quotes

I was somewhat of a mute at school, so people were quite scared!

Eliot Sumner

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Complex literary works demand an effort from the reader that is becoming harder to justify, given the sink-or-swim pressures to make profitable products for a global marketplace.

Joanna Scott

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I was in, like, nine schools by ninth grade, so I moved a ton of times when I was younger.

Jessica Stroup

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Here we are 17 years later. Those agencies never did come through.

Jeremy Rifkin

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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.

Andre Gide

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I think musicians should stay off television generally.

Sufjan Stevens

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The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.

Simon Wiesenthal

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I change my mind quite a lot about things, which isn't always a good thing.

Little Simz

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Any comparison to a WWE legend or someone I've looked up to is really cool, but make no mistake about it, my ego is too big to want to be a really good replica of someone else!

Dolph Ziggler

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Twitter is half me trying to live in the world and half me processing and sharing the world. I share a lot, and some of that is to keep me honest.

DeRay Mckesson

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I certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes.

Clarence Thomas

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We see less of Dave, certainly, and he's kind of fallen out of the sphere of our group, mostly because he's working on his show, and has kind of lost the fun of the party.

Bruce McCulloch

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If you look at the copies of Churchill's speeches that have survived, they are heavily marked up. He was scrupulous about the impact of each word. He preferred short words and the repetition of short words. He knew everything about the techniques of rhetoric.

Anthony McCarten

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