Sufjan Stevens Quotes
It's nice for me to have a ballet as a kind of platform for creativity, because unlike modern dance or contemporary dance or downtown dance, ballet is formalized, and there's something orthodox about it that I like. I like that there's less emphasis on subversion and innovation. I actually think that my musical vernacular or my musical voice is also less inclined toward innovation and subversion. I think I'm a traditionalist.
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There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.
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And, sure, if you have a political point of view, you have every right to share it. But you have to be careful not to get too self-important. You have to find the balance between being entertaining and being preachy.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
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Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
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I will eat disgusting things, but only those with long established culinary traditions.
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It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know.
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I am chairman of the Africa subcommittee in the House of Representatives.
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Well, I like chocolate stuff; I don't like any of that other gross sugary candy.
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If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?
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Well, first I have to make the team, of course.
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What kind of society have we become when children in a great city cannot rely on mothers or fathers for a bowl of cereal in the morning and a brown bag with a sandwich and apple in it for lunch?
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The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on everyone who worshiped at a mosque or took a Bible trip through the Middle East, you'd have an uprising.
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That's pretty much who I am. I like to get riled up. I feel like it brings the best out of me and the other guys.
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I already am a product.
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God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
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Any press is good press. So keep on ragging me.
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Agreeing to share prosperity, rather than let it divide us, is infinitely preferable to the alternative.
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I'm pretty, but I'm not, like, a 'pretty girl.'
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I'll kind of get interested in a subject and I won't know why. It'll be in my head for many years and I'll say, 'Do I know enough here to research?'
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The popular mind often pictures gigantic flying machines speeding across the Atlantic carrying innumerable passengers in a way analogous to our modern steam ships. . . it seems safe to say that such ideas are wholly visionary and even if the machine could get across with one or two passengers the expense would be prohibitive to any but the capitalist who could use his own yacht.
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The rules of parenting have changed. By the modern definition, we were a generation of neglected children.
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Ava DuVernay is my personal Phil Jackson. She's a perfect coach.
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It's nice for me to have a ballet as a kind of platform for creativity, because unlike modern dance or contemporary dance or downtown dance, ballet is formalized, and there's something orthodox about it that I like. I like that there's less emphasis on subversion and innovation. I actually think that my musical vernacular or my musical voice is also less inclined toward innovation and subversion. I think I'm a traditionalist.
