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?
Quotes to Explore
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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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Vietnam is about halfway around the world from Washington. It's as large as the major European nations, with nearly 130,000 square miles... Its ancient recorded history goes back to 111 B.C... We entered (that country) with considerable ignorance.
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Linear narrative is an artfully-directed telling of a story, where the lighting and the sound is all for a very clear purpose. You're not just wandering around in the world.
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'O sleep, O gentle sleep,' I thought gratefully, 'Nature's soft nurse!'
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Success can create more madness than happiness.
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We must admit that it is quite common that people do have affairs with their leading ladies and men.
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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?
