Sufjan Stevens Quotes
I no longer really have faith in the album anymore. I no longer have faith in the song.
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At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.
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Katie Holmes is really amazing.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world - real obesity problems and real hunger problems - to worry that much about a few pounds that I'd like to lose.
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I think, in Spain, they are too used to reaching the limits of democracy and then stepping over them.
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A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor.
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We make music for a living. Like I've always said, if you like what you're doing, you're halfway there; if someone else likes it, that's even better. If they don't like it, at least you like it. Not to be selfish, but you kind of have to be.
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After I learned the piano, I went on to learn percussion, the tuba, b-flat baritone, French horn, trombone, trumpet, most of the instruments in the orchestra. Trumpet was my instrument.
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A good cookout ought to last at least six hours; if you haven't eaten and gotten full and gotten hungry and eaten again, you're doing something wrong.
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Publishing is not my world.
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If you wish at once to do nothing and to be respectable now-a-days, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.
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Any man in the company of two women is outnumbered four to one however amiable they may be.
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The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.
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Theatricals can be irritating, but will provide a better night out than mobile phone salespeople.
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I still love R&B - I kind of literally listen to everything.
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I get caught up in my bubble of reading, writing, or music.
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I hear people all the time say, well I read through the Bible last year. Well, so what? I'm all for reading through the Bible. But how much of that got on the inside, or did they just cover three more chapters today? I would never discredit reading the Scriptures, but it is important to meditate on it.
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But maybe because the dot-com world gives people positions at a younger age, and many women are prominent in this business, it will help change the view about who can run big companies.
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The things we do outlast our mortality. The things we do are like monuments that people build to honor heroes after they've died. They're like the pyramids that the Egyptians built to honor the pharaohs. Only instead of being made of stone, they're made out of the memories people have of you.
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The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected.
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And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.
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Faith offers the promise that everything will ultimately be renewed in God. This hardly means that we will, or must, receive an answer from God for every question in our lives.
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I no longer really have faith in the album anymore. I no longer have faith in the song.
