Sufjan Stevens Quotes

I'd like to do a record that doesn't even reference actual places. Because I think it's kind of an open-ended concept. It doesn't have to be taken so literally.

Sufjan Stevens

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ThinkKindPlacesBecauseLikeEven

If your mind is not willing, everything will go. There's so much great power of our mind that we take for granted, and how we think and what positiveness can do.

Jennifer Holliday

PowerGreatMindThinkGoWill

When I meditate, I can feel an energy that is much bigger than me but is also part of me, and it's a very powerful energy.

Jen Sincero

MeEnergyFeelPowerfulI CanThan

Johnny Cash was a rebel, not only just in the musical sense, but he was somebody who was for the people, and an advocate for labor, for workers, for prisoners, people who have been trapped by the criminal justice system.

Michael Franti

JusticePeopleRebelLaborTrapped

That's one reason I retired as a sergeant and not at a higher rank... I refused to 'play the game' the way the bosses wanted the game played. It is a decision that has cost me money in retirement pay but one that I have never regretted.

Ron Stallworth

DecisionMoneyMeGameRetirement

'Which is stronger, politics or love?' is like asking, 'Which is stronger, exhaling or inhaling?' They are two sides of the same thing.

Mohsin Hamid

LovePoliticsLove IsStrongerSides

My first day in grade school, I was plain scared. I left the comfort of my run-down house, which I loved, and went to school where it was cold, it smelled, the lighting was bad.

Michael Keaton

DaySchoolColdLovedBadHouse

It's in the DNA of Scientology that they don't trust journalists.

Louis Theroux

TrustDNAJournalists

The Bible says that Christians are the salt of the earth and the light of the world. On the job, in the grocery store, even among unsaved friends and family members, God's people are there to bring seasoning to an unsavory situation.

Joyce Meyer

FamilyGodLightJobPeopleWorld

I went to Northwestern in Chicago, in Evanston, and then I ended up trickling down in Chicago theater. I did a bunch of plays, but I was non-equity. For a lot of people, non-equity means you're not yet professional. But for me, if you're in a mainstream theater, you're doing something real.

Denis O'Hare

PeopleMeDoingYouDownChicago

Music is wonderful. Especially if there's some kind of content to it.

Debbie Harry

MusicKindContentWonderfulSome

For years, I wasn't feeling good about myself. My head wasn't clear. I was doing nothing productive.

Chris Cornell

GoodMyselfFeeling GoodDoingHead

Anyone can see why an elite athlete would want to leave a small, impoverished country where their skills were effectively uncashed winning lottery tickets. All they had to do was wash ashore almost anywhere else in the world and cash in. Yet the vast majority of Cuban boxers - and Cuban athletes in general - despite that incentive, stayed.

Brin-Jonathan Butler

WinningWorldSmallCountrySkills

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