Sufjan Stevens Quotes
I've been working a lot on figuring out how to sing differently and better. I want to become a better singer. I want to sing out more. I want to me more extroverted, vocally.

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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Nothing is certain in life but death and taxes. And in Donald Trump's case, lies.
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The financial catastrophe of 2008 nearly precipitated a calamitous economic depression, jolting America and much of the West into a sudden recognition of their systemic vulnerability to unregulated greed.
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I believe in miracles. At the age of 13, I was on holiday in Moscow with my mother. It was the only trip I took in my whole childhood. We stepped off a metro train and were approached by a talent scout who told me that she wanted to sign me to her modeling agency.
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Saints were saints because they acted with loving kindness whether they felt like it or not.
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We're traditional and don't do cutting-edge styles, but after 17 years we're holding our own.
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In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.
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Whenever I'm in Des Moines, I always make a trip to Manhattan Deli for a sandwich. I spent a lot of time there when I was going to college at Drake, so it's usually my one 'go-to' food stop when I'm in town.
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You can't just keep recycling revivals. And you can't keep betting on the efforts of guys like me who've been around. You have to take the next step and bet on the next generation.
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Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
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'Material' is meant to be a fun, lighthearted song about the tiny bit of materialism that's in all of us. The message is meant to translate the notion that you don't need luxury items to feel special; you already are special.
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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
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I play on the left hand side, and I try to do the best I can.
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I was quite short and chubby until I was 14, when I shot up.
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Clinton has played a major role in giving companies like Cipla credibility, for which I will always be grateful.
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With a focus on records and making money, you tend to miss a good story.
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There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.
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When I am working it is up early and coffee and 15 hours of being on the set. When I am not working, it is up late and coffee, golf or softball and hopefully a ball game on the television.
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Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.
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I hate to wait. When I want something, I want it now.
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I enjoy every role I do.
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I've been working a lot on figuring out how to sing differently and better. I want to become a better singer. I want to sing out more. I want to me more extroverted, vocally.