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.

Eliot Sumner

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TimePeopleShortProblemAttention

When you grow up in abject poverty, you see people exactly the way they are.

Viola Davis

PeopleGrowPovertyYouWaySee

One of my favorite experiences was '9 to 5,' for one reason: Dolly Parton. I learned what it means to really work hard and do it with a sense of humor about yourself. Every day was joyful.

Joe Mantello

WorkHumorDayYourselfWork Hard

Apartment living is tough action. Just the whole idea that you share a washer and dryer always freaked me out.

Joe Rogan

MeActionToughYouLivingOut

My job when I'm acting in a movie is very limited to playing a role. I'm not evaluating somebody. I'm only evaluating them insofar as they're interacting with me, but I'm not evaluating their skill set and I don't watch the movies, so I'm not aware of the way they're putting things together.

Jesse Eisenberg

TogetherJobMeActingSkillMovies

I'm supremely uninterested as to what is written in many of the newspapers.

John Bercow

ManyNewspapersUninterestedWritten

I'm big fans of all those musicians, B.B. King, Mick Jagger - they're all on my iPod.

Trombone Shorty

KingMusiciansFansBigThoseiPod

Man, I used to go around and think, 'Oh my God, what must it be like to be going down the street, and someone asks you, 'What's your name?' and the reply would be, 'John Coltrane.' I couldn't imagine what that would be like.

Roscoe Mitchell

GodManThinkNameSomeoneYou

In the rush of today's world, and with more than half of us now living in cities, the majority of people are less and less connected with the spectacle of nature.

Louise Leakey

NatureTodayPeopleWorldLivingUs

You don't want to look the same every day of your life. It's boring as hell.

Joseph Abboud

LifeDayHellYouEvery DayLook

You can have small moments of happiness in life. You certainly can't expect years and years of it.

Donatella Versace

LifeHappinessSmallMomentsYou

Breast cancer is not just a disease that strikes at women. It strikes at the very heart of who we are as women: how others perceive us, how we perceive ourselves, how we live, work and raise our families-or whether we do these things at all.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

WorkWomenLiveHeartOthersCancer

My parents didn't exercise, so it was not something I saw was good for you or fun. I wish I had grown up knowing to do that.

Christina Hendricks

GoodFunParentsWishExerciseYou

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