Sufjan Stevens Quotes
All the time we spent in bed, counting miles before we said, fall in love and fall apart, things will end before they start.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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I like rap. I like anything with soul. I like anything you can feel, anything that makes you think that the artist had to make that song, or they were going to go crazy.
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Privatization of the state-owned economy is not yet on the agenda. We cannot do it immediately; my colleagues would not agree to it. But we must put all forms of ownership on an equal footing immediately and let different types of ownership compete with the state firms.
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El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.
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With The Key, it was, I had gone through a divorce and losing my father, and just kinda really reminiscing about how much I loved the traditional side of country music, so I made a record that was really traditional from start to finish.
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Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.
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I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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When you have a voice, and you have an opportunity at the world level to be able to speak, it has to be right.
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Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.
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I've always been a leader my whole life. I've always led. I didn't know how to do anything else.
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Chelsea are a big club - we have to win titles and to qualify for the Champions League. There's a lot to do, but we'll try to do it all.
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What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more.
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Well, I feel that everybody in the country knows me. I think people know who I am, and that I'm deputy leader of the Labour party, and that I'm out there talking about their big choice for the future.
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I never thought of myself in comedy at all... I loved going to the theatre and seeing people wearing beautiful clothes come down the staircase and start to dance.
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Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?
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If I was gonna go to jail, I don't want to go to jail for stealing a bottle of water. I'll steal that $20 million. At least then it was worth it.
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Never do anything that someone else can and will do, when there is so much of importance to be done which others cannot or will not do.
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Americans will see that when lesbians and gay men are given access to most of the rights and obligations of civil marriage, the sky will not fall and the institution of marriage will be even stronger.
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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
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Do you know what a Palmist once said to me? She said: will you let go!
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All the time we spent in bed, counting miles before we said, fall in love and fall apart, things will end before they start.
