Sufjan Stevens Quotes

I still describe myself as a Christian, and my love of God and my relationship with God is fundamental, but its manifestations in my life and the practices of it are constantly changing. I find incredible freedom in my faith.

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• I was not meant to go deer hunting every fall.

  

  Frances Fisher
  • Fall
  • Hunting
  • Deer

• The main thing that I learned from my horrible job experiences was how horrible they were.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Job
  • Learned
  • Experiences

• I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Singing

• I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • People
  • Know
  • Inside

• I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Politics
  • Texas
  • Impact

• I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Women
  • Vote
  • Count

• I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Work
  • Character

• It's rare that I turn down a photo or autograph, because these are the people that support me, so why not support them. I love it and I invite it. I love what I do and the whole 'celebrity' life and all that.

  

  Lance Gross
  • People
  • Life
  • Celebrity

• When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass, he kicks.

  

  Patricia Neal
  • Heart
  • You
  • Strength

• News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all.

  

  Gay Talese
  • News
  • Impact
  • Well

• Be nice to people – all people – even when you don't have to be. Everybody is important.

  

  Ben Carson
  • People
  • Important
  • Nice

• The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively, in their nerve ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.

  

  Al Alvarez
  • Life
  • Real
  • Art

• All my kids play guitar, sing, and dabble with writing.

  

  Patti Scialfa
  • Writing
  • Kids

• I had some good teachers. One of the greatest teachers I've had is bluegrass music: going back and listening to Bill Monroe's music, the Stanley Brothers, Flatt & Scruggs. When I was with Ralph Stanley I learned a lot from him.

  

  Rickie Lee Skaggs
  • Good
  • Music
  • Listening

• I would love to learn how to air kiss non-awkwardly.

  

  Ned Beauman
  • Air
  • Kiss

• The Republican 'Work Harder for Less' budget leaves more Americans even worse off than they are today. The 'People's Budget' makes the critical investments needed to give the American people exactly what they deserve - economic security and peace of mind - and helps grow our economy from the middle out.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • People
  • Work
  • Mind

• I've always thought if I could pick my interviewer, it'd be Charlie Rose, who I think is the best.

  

  Dick Van Dyke
  • Rose

• Critics of consumer capitalism like to think that consumers are manipulated and controlled by those who seek to sell them things, but for the most part it's the other way around: companies must make what consumers want and deliver it at the lowest possible price.

  

  James Surowiecki

• What goes on between a father and a son, which is usually such a private matter, is that they are able to be honest with each other, and be honest with me, as a director. It's just remarkable.

  

  Lee Grant
  • Father
  • Son

• Throughout your whole career, there's a bunch of people you might have to kiss. Say there's this character opposite you, and you might not be into her - or him, personally. You just gotta' do it. That's your job.

  

  Chord Overstreet
  • People
  • Character
  • Job

• Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • Feeling
  • Knowledge
  • Loyalty

• Our first album didn't work because we tried to be something we're not.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Work
  • First
  • Something

• I still describe myself as a Christian, and my love of God and my relationship with God is fundamental, but its manifestations in my life and the practices of it are constantly changing. I find incredible freedom in my faith.

  

  Sufjan Stevens
  • Relationship
  • Christian
  • Practice