Sufjan Stevens Quotes
I've always been obsessed with electronics and using computers and software. It's always been part of my vernacular.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I really do want to have a child.
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My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable.
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What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at dice, but spends his leisure otherwise, what nonsense does he not utter? What absurdities does he not listen to? Leisure without the fear of God is, for those who do not know how to use time, the teacher of wickedness.
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I don't use the computer. I do sketches, very quickly, often more than 100 on the same formal research.
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I've always been obsessed with electronics and using computers and software. It's always been part of my vernacular.
