Sufjan Stevens Quotes

A musician's attempt to summarize his or her work leads to all this prescriptive chatter, or what I call the 'Modifier's Madness.' A lot of adjectives working overtime.

Sufjan Stevens

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WorkMadnessCallHerWorkingHis

Sadat was a great and good man, and his most bitter and dangerous enemies were people who were obsessed with hatred for his peaceful goals.

Jimmy Carter

GoodGoalsGreatManPeopleHatred

One of my biggest intellectual influences in my life was Alex Karp of Palantir.

Joe Lonsdale

LifeMy LifeIntellectualInfluences

I think all the best songs do that: they offer some sort of hope and light in the darkness.

Jens Lekman

HopeLightBestDarknessThinkSome

If something is very, very funny but possibly controversial, if it's truly funny, then it's worth doing. Things aren't worth doing for the sake of being controversial.

John Mulaney

FunnyDoingWorthThingsSomething

For me, age doesn't matter. You've got to go with your heart.

Amy Jackson

AgeHeartMeYouGoMatter

I relate to the audiences and they know me. It's pretty real.

Steve Forbert

MeKnowRealPrettyRelate

I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic.

Studs Terkel

GoodHopeWorldSurviveThinkSay

I lead by example. My kids know what sweat is. They've seen me come home from so many runs and asked, 'What's on your skin? How did you get it?' And I tell them, 'It's from exercise!' So now my son will come home from a bike ride, take off his helmet and say, 'Look, Mom. I'm sweating! I just worked out!'

Summer Sanders

HomeSonRideBikeMeMom

Hospice has brought such a light in my life. It is something I will be involved with until I need hospice myself.

Torrey DeVitto

LifeLightMyselfMy LifeWillNeed

It never seemed that honorable to me, and I guess I was always afraid that I might fail.

Rooney Mara

MeNeverAlwaysAfraidFailGuess

The UFC are my employers, so they have to come first.

Robert Whittaker

FirstComeUFCEmployers

Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand.

Michael Pollan

FoodMoreIndustryDemandSensitive

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