Sufjan Stevens Quotes

I quickly learned that you don't have to be incarcerated by suffering, and that, in spite of the dysfunctional nature of your family, you are an individual in full possession of your life.

Sufjan Stevens

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The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don't understand about that, is markets are not kind, but they're very efficient. So when the marketplace determines an inefficiency in the system, it corrects that, and a market system that's left alone will reward good behavior and punish bad behavior.

Randy Neugebauer
- People
- Good
- Bad
I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.

Ed Speleers
- Time
- Long
- Family
I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.

Lalla Ward
- Time
- Different
- Writing
A busybody's work is never done.

A. N. Wilson
- Work
- Done
- Never
In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.

Jackie Cooper
- People
- Boy
- Living
With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?

Rafael Palmeiro
- People
- Great
- Me