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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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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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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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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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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I have a sweet tooth the size of Connecticut. It's a problem.
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It should be mandatory that any tax breaks go through appropriate committees and be voted on separately by both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
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We should have scant notion of the gardens of these New England colonists in the seventeenth century were it not for a cheerful traveller named John Josselyn, a man of everyday tastes and much inquisitiveness, and the pleasing literary style which comes from directness, and an absence of self-consciousness.
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The American Dream is really money.
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Before you can change your industry positively, you need to understand how to go about doing so.
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One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.
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One heart cannot serve two masters.
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The environmental benefits of hydrogen are also outstanding. When used as an energy source, hydrogen produces no emissions besides water. Zero polluting emissions, an amazing advance over the current sources of energy that we use.
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No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it.
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I always want to set myself a challenge by doing something no-one would expect me to do! But, having said that, I don't feel as a musician you can steer too far away from what you normally do.
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Take a good rest, small bird," he said. "Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.
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I’ve never known a man who loved me.
