Sufjan Stevens Quotes
There is nothing more incredible and moving and appealing than good music, and it cannot always be reduced to a story, to exposition. It's so much more abstract and brilliant.
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Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.
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Kids have a weird honesty, especially in their reaction to things where a lot of older people who have matured have lost that.
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Conservatives have always wanted border security before we had immigration reform.
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People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
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I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.
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Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.
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I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me.
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You've got to work hard for your success and you've got to have a steady presence. That's the secret.
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I always knew I wanted to be in a band.
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You have to train a dog to think.
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The challenge with SXSW and events like it is it's so big and overwhelming, it's easy to get lost in the crowd.
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I have tried to kill sectarianism, whether in Catholics or Protestants.
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Let me talk about what the banks are doing, and I think the banks have been working to make sure that, as much as possible, we move the currency to the smaller areas and to as many set of customers as possible.
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By the end of the 1970s Britain was in a mess.
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The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.
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I like to call someone a raving c**t every now and then, when it’s appropriate, for effect (...) ‘You cocksucker.’ I love that kind of language.
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It is not necessarily poverty of spirit that makes a woman surround herself with life - it can be a superabundance of interest.
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A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps.
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When I'm dead I don't want a funeral. I want people to remember me alive.
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Hip-hop in the '90s began moving towards the Nation of Islam and the 5 Percenters, black nationalist movements; very much so, these movements embraced a form of Islam: Malcom X's form of Islam prior to his change.
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There is nothing more incredible and moving and appealing than good music, and it cannot always be reduced to a story, to exposition. It's so much more abstract and brilliant.
