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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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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We have to be serious and consistent if we believe the European Union makes sense. I believe it makes sense.
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You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.
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I will tell you with 100 percent confidence, Jon Jones is not deep in my head. The fact he actually thinks that, it makes me smile every day.
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Running toward danger is foolhardy. ... But so is closing your eyes to it. Many perils become less dangerous once you understand their potential hazards.
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Start out with an ideal and end up with a deal.
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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.
