Sufjan Stevens
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered abo... JOHN KEEGAN I am a living illustration of Bosnian mixing and converting. My grandparents lived in eastern Herzeg... EMIR KUSTURICA DAVID BERGEN I just went on stage as much as possible. It was just kind of a trial and error kind of thing. TONY MOSCHETTO My parents lived in a poor rural community on the Eastern Shore, and schools were still segregated. ... BRYAN STEVENSON FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT I was born in Manhattan on West 12th. My parents were kind of hippies and they did a home birth. ETHAN SUPLEE ABHIJIT NASKAR ELIZA DUSHKU NIELS BOHR I was born and raised Catholic, so it's in my blood. I don't go to church... I was born and ... TOM ARAYA KIM KARDASHIAN SARAH J. MAAS DAVID DUCHOVNY TAHAR BEN JELLOUN RACHEL CUSK YAEL NAIM When I was born, my parents were huge into skiing. I grew up on Mont Blanc, skiing on that hill. I w... PATRICK CHAN I've always maintained there is no incompatibility between Islam and democracy. The Europeans in... BEJI CAID ESSEBSI There were closer ties between Austria and Eastern Europe even when the borders were closed. After t... CLEMENS JOOS SARAH J. MAAS SARAH J. MAAS SARAH J. MAAS GEORGE R.R. MARTIN GEORGE R.R. MARTIN SARAH J. MAAS SARAH J. MAAS J. D. SALINGER J.D. SALINGER JOHN SCALZI CHINA MIéVILLE ROBERT A. HEINLEIN PRINCE CHARLES CHANTAL KREVIAZUK ELIZA DUSHKU Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error... KEITH HENSON SAM HARRIS CARDINAL J. NEWMAN CARDINAL NEWMAN JOHN HENRY NEWMAN The program of A.A., as written by Bill Wilson and Dr. Smith, only has one purpose: to get you sober... SUSAN CHEEVER Help your father RASSOOL JIBRAEEL SNYMAN Prime Minister Blair has indicated an interest in discussing the matter of the development of Islam ... YUSRIL IHZA MAHENDRA EUGENE IONESCO I came up during the 'Star Wars' generation and that was sort of the thing I plugged into mu... ZACHARY QUINTO KARRIE WEBB I was in something called 'Garth Marenghi's Darkplace' which was a real cult comedy; it&... ALICE LOWE I've always loved to learn. I've always enjoyed school, and it might have gotten me into trouble wit... BEN CLABO DAVID ARQUETTE When I made Blue Moon Swamp, there was a lot of trial and error; I was trying to find people who wou... JOHN FOGERTY I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers. IRWIN THOMAS MARILYN MANSON She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself. ELIZABETH TAYLOR GEORGE R.R. MARTIN DOROTHY ALLISON MARY KARR As I was being born my father claims that he was playing his fiddle/violin to soothe my mother and w... FAIRUZA BALK As I’ve said, encountering death has a way of jerking your priorities into line. JAMES C. DOBSON My dad was a huge Bob Dylan fan, so we listened to his music, Cat Stevens, Simon & Garfunkel, an... OSCAR ISAAC We came out of the locker room and extended the lead. They didn't have an answer for Stevens. Then L... DARREN MATHEWS I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds. ADAM LAMBERT JOHN F. KENNEDY SARAH J. MAAS My parents were divorced when I was three, and both my father and mother moved back into the homes o... PATRICIA POLACCO CRAIG GROESCHEL I mean, I grew up with pretty down-to-earth, atheist parents, but I was born a Pisces. MELISSA AUF DER MAUR EMILIA FOX SHAWN AMOS It is definitely trial and error. I guess we went through the same process when the cable industry f... ERIC MELLOUL Canada has extremely lax laws allowing people to come in and live there from Middle Eastern countrie... CONNIE HAIR GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Trial and error are usually the prime means of solving life’s problems. Yet many people are afraid... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA CHELSEA CLINTON I think the '70s are always inspiring to me. I was born then, so I have a lot of memories about ... FRIDA GIANNINI Failures are inevitable when you experiment, but it is a trial-and-error process that gives results. HARESH SIPPY Photography has been a passion of mine since I was 15. After my kids were born I found myself incorp... ANGELA CARTWRIGHT LANA DEL REY I had the blessing or curse to be born into an activist family. My mom and dad were into the protest... JUSTIN SANE I would rather do it in an environment that has Christian music and is prayerful than in a typical s... KIM ELLIOTT YANN MARTEL JAY SAMIT I was going to be a concert pianist, and when I was in high school, my parents were scared to death ... DAVID HYDE PIERCE 38. “A wet bird never flies at night.” (My grandfather said that to me when I was a child and wa... JAMES C. DOBSON KILROY J. OLDSTER HUGH JACKMAN I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. I grew up in a very Jewish neighbourhood and thought the whole worl... LARRY CHARLES SHIA LABEOUF CRAIG GROESCHEL JERRY REINSDORF Finding a peace within yourself is not condoning your actions but learning from your reaction. JASMINA SIDEROVSKI SARAH J. MAAS SARAH J. MAAS There you are. I've been looking for you. SARAH J. MAAS SARAH J. MAAS SARAH J. MAAS SARAH J. MAAS SARAH J. MAAS Julia poured tea gracefully, but it all ran over into the saucers. ELIZABETH TAYLOR The next day, the villages came closer together until the beginnings and endings could no longer be ... PATRICK W. CARR
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TED STEVENS I am guilty of asking the Senate for pork and proud of the Senate for giving it to me. TED STEVENS I do have concerns about the current efforts to restructure our nation's intelligence community. TED STEVENS There are not as many women who support the national defense budget now as men. I really think there... TED STEVENS People who vote against this today are voting against me and I will not forget. TED STEVENS I rise today to discuss the National Intelligence Reform bill. I commend my colleagues in both House... TED STEVENS I was in the Boy Scouts for about four years until my troop disbanded. It is really one of the best ... TED STEVENS CAT STEVENS RACHEL STEVENS I wanted to do an episode about Chuck having a gambling problem. I wanted to portray my addiction on... 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FISHER STEVENS I used to be more of a wild kid. But I've slowed down. FISHER STEVENS And TV is not the easiest place to be dangerous or on the edge. Especially on a Saturday night. FISHER STEVENS Unfortunately, the public might not know that we get a script usually two days before shooting. So s... FISHER STEVENS But basically what I like are the possibilities, and the fantasy element of the show. Not science fa... FISHER STEVENS I use that as my responsibility on the show, to be the pragmatist. FISHER STEVENS But I'm trying to play into this role as much as possible and be a nicer person in real life. FISHER STEVENS Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible. FISHER STEVENS It got a little boring I guess, playing the same note over and over. FISHER STEVENS But did I think it would last more than 13 episodes at the time? No, I didn't think that. I neve... FISHER STEVENS I'm really obsessed with the past. FISHER STEVENS No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero. FISHER STEVENS I like people and get along, and I'm afraid to express my anger and my rage. FISHER STEVENS You know, it's a very sexist society, Indonesia. FISHER STEVENS But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. I... FISHER STEVENS But I like being nasty. I like being cranky. Especially if it's a cold day in Chicago, it's ... FISHER STEVENS Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, se... THADDEUS STEVENS WALLACE STEVENS WALLACE STEVENS The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know. 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STEVENS WALLACE STEVENS Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system. STUART STEVENS DAN STEVENS I really wanted to be born a woman. It all started there. A South American woman. And I'm upset ... FISHER STEVENS CAT STEVENS RACHEL STEVENS WALLACE STEVENS CONNIE STEVENS CONNIE STEVENS DAN STEVENS DAN STEVENS CONNIE STEVENS CONNIE STEVENS CONNIE STEVENS CONNIE STEVENS CONNIE STEVENS CONNIE STEVENS CONNIE STEVENS CONNIE STEVENS CONNIE STEVENS CONNIE STEVENS CONNIE STEVENS CONNIE STEVENS CAT STEVENS CAT STEVENS One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reveri... MARK STEVENS Back then, other than male players, girls really didn't have any role models in basketball. I rememb... BARBARA STEVENS People moving into Orange County are typically concerned about two things. They want to know about t... BARBARA STEVENS They read everything and know everything about the Bentley College legacy. It bothers them when they... BARBARA STEVENS They were coming in here ready to give us one more big shot. They had the adrenaline going early and... BARBARA STEVENS To be mentioned in the same breath as them is truly an honor. BARBARA STEVENS They must have been pretty sure of themselves. To be honest, to me it was just a conference game, a ... BARBARA STEVENS
Failure is essential. Trial and error is necessary. 
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But a... 
Terrorism has nothing to do with religion, Islam or otherwise. Terrorism is born of fundamentalism n... 
My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist... 
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made but in a very narrow field. 
I remember when the wave of Jennifer Lopez, Salma Hayek and these beautiful Hispanic women came into... 
You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. 
He wanted to argue like this forever. This was better than nothing. There was no exhausting his ange... 
Did my father talk to me? It's true, he didn't say a lot to me, but I knew what had to be done. No n... 
I was aware, in those early days of motherhood, that my behaviour was strange to the people who knew... 
My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone... 
The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison 
Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... 
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was bor... 
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was bor... 
My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I... 
Once I said to my father, 'Why do you want me?'
Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political po... 
Christianity was literally born in the Middle East, and we must not forget our Middle Eastern brothe... 
Well, Winnepeg has everything to do with my music in the sense it was where I was born and raised, c... 
To speak specifically of our problem with the Muslim world, we are meandering into a genuine clash o... 
From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other re... 
From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other re... 
From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other re... 
I was born near Bucharest, but my parents came to France a year later. We moved back to Romania when... 
It was sort of just a family sport. My mom and dad were pretty keen golfers when I was young and so ... 
I'm trying figuring out how to be the best person I can be. But it's been a process of trial... 
My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my m... 
You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat. 
My son, Wolf, was born when I was past 40 and the author of a best-selling novel. That means he has ... 
Both my parents were agnostic. My mother was kind of a Buddhist. She had some spiritual tendencies, ... 
For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other y... 
I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. 
When I go into the garden, I forget everything. It's uncomplicated in my world of gardening. It&... 
At the height of his popularity in 1977, Cat Stevens converted to Islam and dedicated his life to ed... 
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Everyone loved my father. He was so nice that people took advantage of him. We were lower middle cla... 
He drained his glass. "I made a mistake."
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After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs. 
Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our d... 
In the early days I had a very black-and-white view of everything. I think that's kind of natura... 
I'm not normally the kind of person who holds on to grudges, I'm really not. 
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I've studied various schools of thought... I acknowledge that some Muslims consider music prohibited... 
I don't know much about my biological background. 
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Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts. 
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Nothing you wear is more important than your smile. 
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