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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My family - my husband, my daughters, my grandchildren, my great-grandchildren, all of them - are the most important thing in the world to me.
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Clapton asked my brother to play on his record. I thought that was the most wonderful thing in the world.
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God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.
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Our government, conceived in liberty and purchased with blood, can be preserved only by constant vigilance. May we guard it as our children's richest legacy, for what shall it profit our nation if it shall gain the whole world and lose “the spirit that prizes liberty as the heritage of all men in all lands everywhere”?
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Once I got to college, it seemed that the Hamptons were a little bit too posh for me and didn't represent the kind of values I was embracing in my late teens. So, I didn't go out there, except to visit my parents, for a long time. And then, after 9/11, I discovered it was a nice, mellow place to hang out.
Colson Whitehead -
We live in a world that is cruel to the earth itself. Man is a biological terrorist.
