"I'm a very self-conscious person, I think we all are, but I'm especially not very comfortable in my body. I always feel really weird and awkward on the street or on the stage. It has nothing to do with circumstances, it's just an ongoing psychological state, like white noise."

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Source : "Sufjan Stevens: 'I've always been insecure about what I do'". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2011.

Sufjan Stevens

#Thinking Quotes #Self Quotes #White Quotes

“What we conceal Is always more than what we dare confide. Think of the letters that we write our dead.”

Source : Dana Gioia (2016). “99 Poems: New & Selected”, p.70, Macmillan
“Everyone sort of lives with their rulers in the past and doesnâ€™t look at coming changes.”
“We need to abandon the economist's notion of the economy as a machine, with its attendant concept of equilibrium. A more helpful way of thinking about the economy is to imagine it as a living organism.”

Source : "The Death of Economics". Book by Paul Ormerod, 1994.
“Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the recognition of fellow scientists and of the mankind which ultimately benefits from his endeavors.”
“Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, the color of my skin and my rather peculiar background as an Ethiopian immigrant delineated the border of my life and friendships. I learned quickly how to stand alone.”
“The purpose of a headline is to pick out people you can interest. You wish to talk to someone in a crowd. So the first thing you say is, "hey there, Bill Jones" to get the right persons attention.so it is in n advertisement”
“Who can judge the judge?”
“My approach to writing and recording now is pretty much the same as when I started. Except now I worry even less about what people will think of what I made. And I am not drunk.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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