Sufjan Stevens Quotes
My music is just about story telling. I don't have much to say, and I'm not trying to change anyone's mind. I'm just singing through conviction about what I love and what I care about, starting with the very small.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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I dress for men.
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I have a great office.
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I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.
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I think all of us are thankful every day we get to put this uniform on, and we play this game. So try not to take any days for granted. Every time you take the field, give a hundred percent and leave it all out there.
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When I was first exposed to the films of Ingmar Bergman, I found them frank and disturbing portraits of the world we live in, but that was not something that displeased me. They were beautiful. I thought people would respond to my plays the way I responded to Bergman's films.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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One of the things we found out as we filmed with people who dealt with chimps, and with all animals, and it's really incredible, is their levels of intelligence that we don't recognize right away.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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Let's just say I decided that while my son is young I don't want to do projects that would take me away for months.
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To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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There's a joke that, if you can ride through Texas with somebody, which is 700 miles of just straight, flat freeway riding, then you can be friends with them forever.
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Personally, I believe people who have a lots of memories are people who are living with zest.
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English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.
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Why should we use the Dollar even when we trade among ourselves?
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Intellectuals … advertise their superiority to political practice but are absolutely in its thrall. … It is no accident that Marxist theory and practice use the intellectuals as tools and keep them in brutal subservience.
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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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La tierra tiene lo que tú levantas de la tierra. Nada más tiene.
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I mean, of course "King Kong" is a metaphor for the slave trade. I'm not saying the makers of "King Kong" meant it to be that way, but that's what, that's the movie that they made - whether they meant to make it or not.
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What formed me as a musician, a songwriter, the sound and personality of my band, a whole lot of that happened well before 1991.
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I do like reality shows, and I watch some of them because they're high drama. It's also just fun to watch people have honest reactions.
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My music is just about story telling. I don't have much to say, and I'm not trying to change anyone's mind. I'm just singing through conviction about what I love and what I care about, starting with the very small.
