Sufjan Stevens Quotes
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Tom Brokaw was never young.
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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
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I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.
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I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.
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I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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I imagine there are things I wouldn't do, but I haven't been offered those recently either.
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I think you have to be really lucky to pick the sort of roles you want to do.
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Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
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Few states, they have the international borders, state borders; in India, there is so much diversity in system. Unity in diversity is our system, so therefore, you cannot take for granted, whatever you do.
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The mind is just another muscle.
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I heard it in 2008 and hear it again now - this notion that the only reason one would support Hillary Clinton is because she is a woman - or only because she is experienced and smart. She is all of those things. But I am with her because... Hillary Clinton inspires me.
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The thing about Uggs is that they're so comfortable. Once you've worn them, you don't want to go back.
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Even newlyweds don't spend much time together, now that few marriages outlast the appliance warranties.
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Pleasant, a steed in a leather halter; Also pleasant, alliance with a king. Pleasant, the hero that destroys not the yielding; Also pleasant, the splendid Cymraec language.
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At that stage my heart ruled my head'.
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I am going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.
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My poetry is a declaration of war, not an exordium to defeat. It is not the defeated soldier's drumbeat of despair, but the fighting warrior's will to win. It is not the de-spirited voice of dejection but the stirring shout of victory.
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I've been so impressed by the material that's been sent to me, but I don't think that's because it's me.
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There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.
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I'm very lucky to be able to work in print and radio. I'm very lucky to be able to work at a time when finance and economics are really important. And the number of people who tell finance and economic stories in a kind of accessible storytelling way, there's much more demand than there is supply.
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I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist. And my reality is that we live in a multifaceted, multicultural world. And maybe once we stop labeling ourselves, then maybe everyone else will.
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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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We live in a world that is cruel to the earth itself. Man is a biological terrorist.
