Sufjan Stevens Quotes
I've always been obsessed with electronics and using computers and software. It's always been part of my vernacular.
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It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
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I care not to debate which came first, Islamism or anti-Muslim bigotry; suffice to say that both feed into each other symbiotically.
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The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
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I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.
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My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me confidence.
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All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
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Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet.
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There is less fighting in the game than we had years ago. I mean, we penalize it.
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If you love something, you have to stay really focused and can't let outside things distract you.
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When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
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The fact that I am still alive after 100,000 laps is my championship.
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I've got the Jewish guilt and the Irish shame and it's a hell of a job distinguishing which is which.
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Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you.
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When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it.
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Let's get glam. It's all in the way you move. Let's get glam. Don't let the clothes wear you. Let's get glam. It's all an attitude.
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My personal life may be crowded with small petty incidents, altogether unnoticeable and mean; but if I obey Jesus Christ in the haphazard circumstances, they become pinholes through which I see the face of God, and when I stand face to face with God I will discover that through my obedience thousands were blessed. When once God's Redemption comes to the point of obedience in a human soul, it always creates. If I obey Jesus Christ, the Redemption of God will rush through me to other lives, because behind the deed of obedience is the Reality of Almighty God.
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I don't fight creativity. I don't fight against not being creative. If I'm not being creative, I'm not forcing it.
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Still, there is a calm, pure harmony, and music inside of me.
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You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo.
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But in this world of morally-warped phenomena there are rare and happy exceptions of truly great magnitude, which always pay dearly for their exclusiveness and fall a prey to their own superiority. Natures of genius, themselves unaware of their genius, they are relentlessly killed by an unconscious society as an expiatory sacrifice to its own sins … Such is Pushkin’s Tatiana.
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Computers are famous for difficulties. A difficulty is just a blockage from progress. You have to try a lot of things. When you finally find what works, it doesn't tell you a thing. It won't be the same tomorrow. Getting the computer to work is so often dealing with difficulties.
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There are so many ships in the animation sea that are computer driven, that I think we can have at least one that's just a log raft that we can row by hand.
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I've always been obsessed with electronics and using computers and software. It's always been part of my vernacular.
