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Sufjan Stevens

"I think a lot of my interest in history now isn't so much in places and names and texts and public figures, but more in examining all the nuances and idiosyncrasies of particular stories of everyday people. And if that doesn't happen, then I usually transplant myself and my own stories to a particular historical event. Which is why you'll see me, the first person pronoun, interacting in a song about Carl Sandburg, or you'll find my [sic] interacting with Saul Bellow. It's sort of a re-rendering of history and making it my own."

-- Sufjan Stevens

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“I do think actually in this case the government does get credit for funding some of the basic research.”
“I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.”
“I, myself, identify myself as a heathen.”

Source : "Joy Behar Show", www.cnn.com. October 9, 2009.
“We live of novelty in science. So when you do something new, you have to overcome certain beliefs that it cannot be done, that it's not interesting and so on.”
“And dieting, I discovered, was another form of disordered eating, just as anorexia and bulimia similarly disrupt the natural order of eating. "Ordered" eating is the practice of eating when you are hungry and ceasing to eat when your brain sends the signal that your stomach is full. ... All people who live their lives on a diet are suffering. If you can accept your natural body weight and not force it to beneath your body's natural, healthy weight, then you can live your life free of dieting, of restriction, of feeling guilty every time you eat a slice of your kid's birthday cake.”
“If someone mistakes your kindness for weakness, that's their fault - not yours. And it's OK to be a decent human being in this life.”

Source : Source: www.complex.com
“In terms of the idea of long-term occupation - I have been reading a little bit more about this period - and you can see in that occupation are many lessons for the current occupation of Iraq. So we have these connections that go way back that people aren't aware of.”
“I'm trustworthy and true and a whole of other positive words that start with T.”

Source : "Working Class Zero". Book by Rob Payne, 2003.

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