Sufjan Stevens Quotes
If there's any kind of morality, for me, it's about reality; what is reality? I have a hard time distinguishing what is valuable when it comes to the real world and the fantasy world. Like, should I invest my time in the ordinary world or the imaginary world?
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When I'm telling stories of my video game days, when I was a really hardcore MMO player, I played 'EverQuest' for two years and played 'World of Warcraft' and several other games for the last ten years or so... 95% of the stories I'll tell you are 'EverQuest.'
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I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
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What we now call the browser is whatever defines the web. What fits in the browser is the World Wide Web and a number of trivial standards to handle that so that the content comes.
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Sometimes in the morning, when it's a good surf, I go out there, and I don't feel like it's a bad world.
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Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
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I have a lot of diehard fans. Ace Frehley fans and Kiss fans are the greatest fans in the world.
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The history of Israel-Palestine conflict cannot be understood without its underlying emotional meanders. The emotional frameworks of the loss of Palestine for the Arab-Islamic world touched deep scars that go back to the Crusades, symbolizing a proof of Arab-Islamic decay, political impotence, and perceived (British/French) betrayal and antagonism.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
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Orwell's '1984' convinced me, rightly or wrongly, that Marxism was only a quantum leap away from tyranny. By contrast, Huxley's 'Brave New World' suggested that the totalitarian systems of the future might be subservient and ingratiating.
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Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
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If someone lacked decency or respect, I didn't allow that person to stay in my world.
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We live in an increasingly technological world where the issues are quite complex and based on some complicated science.
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The best doctors and medicine in the world can't save you if you don't do what you're supposed to do.
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The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.
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I love my job; I love the world that it is. But I don't want someone who is just in love with that world. I want to be with someone who is in love with me, warts and all.
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You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
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We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world.
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Ted Cruz, who uses phrases like 'carpet-bombing' the people of ISIS and who said, after the incidents in Paris, that we need a war president, is using fear mongering and hate speech. As a citizen of the world, I'm very concerned that this kind of behavior is being cheered on by anyone. It only brings more pain and suffering.
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To all my fans who planned to come to the Future History World tour, the pain of letting you down cuts me way deeper than this injury I've sustained.
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My aim is to get people excited about eating more veggies and seeing them as delicious ingredients rather than a chore.
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A small child from a developing country has the advantage, from a very early age, of having access to toys which structure his mind, which constitute a sure advantage over the little African child who has never even held a modern toy.
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If there's any kind of morality, for me, it's about reality; what is reality? I have a hard time distinguishing what is valuable when it comes to the real world and the fantasy world. Like, should I invest my time in the ordinary world or the imaginary world?
