Sufjan Stevens Quotes
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I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.
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Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
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I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
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So far, Vancouver is my favorite relocation city. It feels like home. Parts of it remind me of the east coast. It's very clean. The food is great. And the people are lovely. Not that I didn't love working in other glamorous locations like Downey, Detroit, Cleveland or Bulgaria... but, damn, it is fun to be Canadian.
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The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.
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I've been getting pulled from newspapers for my entire career.
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It's what great artists do. They suffer and feel more within the human condition than others. They're not better for that, just more sensitive, and there's a burden to that.
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With the Internet and social media being a huge part of today's culture, I think it's super important to promote staying smart online.
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I've had some threaten not to give Communion to me, even though they don't know my position, just because I'm a Democrat. I've had cardinals refuse to shake my hand because I'm a Democrat.
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If you leave your wife and you don't ever contact her again, that says something about how you felt about the marriage.
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I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
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Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.
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To commit a successful murder must be very much like bringing off a conjuring trick.
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The criteria of art are the imponderable, the immeasurable.
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A cocktail done right can really show your guests that you care.
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People spend time worrying about things they think they have to have and lose perception of what they do have. You can have all the money and material things you want. If you aren't here to enjoy them, what good do they do?
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I knew it the first of the summer, I knew it the same at the end, That you and your love were plighted, But couldn't you be my friend?
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We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
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I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
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Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.
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I’ve never known a man who loved me.
