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.
Quotes to Explore
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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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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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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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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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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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Two years later, I arrived in New York. I was in awe because it was like another planet.
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.
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I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.
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I didn't know box office was a thing you could possess but I don't have it. I go up for lovely roles and people with this nebulous thing called box office get them so there isn't much I can do about that unless you know where I can get some box-office myself!
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Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.
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Well, in order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times.
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There is a reality that this day and age is the digital era. Anybody can find anything they want.
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Part of the excitement of doing independent film is the complete unknown of what lies in store for the film's future.
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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.
