Sufjan Stevens
Related KANGANA RANAUT Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing. ADAM LEVINE LEONORA CARRINGTON TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO BILLY CRYSTAL I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES People ask me why I'm so rebellious. Well, I don't think I'm being a rebel. People perceive that bei... KAMANDA NDAMA THOMAS CARLYLE THOMAS CARLYLE I didn't grow up listening to country music. I pretty much grew up rebelling against country mus... NATALIE MAINES NINA DOBREV MUSIQ SOULCHILD HOLLY COMBS JOHN SCALZI The rules only applied toCAMERON STRACHER DAN STEVENS DREXEL DEAL People expect you to change when you become a mother, and of course my priorities changed when I had... IMELDA MAY It was us against the world. We stressed team over self - and the fact that everyone was against us ... BURNELL GLANZER BERTHA VON SUTTNER The Band was rebelling against the rebellion. The rebellion went to a place where it became too obvi... ROBBIE ROBERTSON JENNIFER CAPRIATI ELAINE PAGELS I've always called it a rebellion. People were rebelling against injustice. They demanded to be hear... ANGELA LEISURE I'd say my mother made more of a difference to me than anyone else did. I know that's a conv... HERB KELLEHER Most of the characters I write with don't think an awful lot about their faith. They're not ... ALICE MCDERMOTT ALBERT CAMUS I was so dedicated to generating income to keep my family housed and clothed and schooled. That matt... BILLY CASPER Personally speaking, growing up as a gay man before it was as socially acceptable as it is now, I kn... JOHN LOGAN If we can get them to understand that saying "no" to drugs is rebelling against their parents and th... JOHN VAN DE KAMP J.D. STROUBE LINDA GRAY Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designe... EVA ZEISEL CARLOS SANTANA It was a leap of faith for me. I decided to leave my job and find out how I could become more involv... GLADYS POZZA HENRIK IBSEN HENRIK IBSEN TIM BURTON JENNIFER GARNER ELLEN DEGENERES KYGO My roommate was black and he'd get me to dress up really nerdy and take me to the parties with the b... GREG TALBOTT I have done everything I can to make sure my daughter knows her father because you form your own ide... GRETA SCACCHI MICHAEL DAVIS PENELOPE CRUZ DEYTH BANGER I actually was rebelling as all young adults tend to do at or around the age of 19, to experiment wi... BRIAN BOSWORTH JULIA CAMERON Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, ... JOHN ACTON EDDIE MURPHY BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK DAVE MUSTAINE DAVID SOUL My whole thing was, as much as I was inspired by what my parents do, and growing up on film sets, wa... DREE HEMINGWAY MATISYAHU SEAN COMBS DAVE MUSTAINE JANET JACKSON It was always fun to play against Mike growing up. Now that we are on the same team, it's even bette... MICHAEL CHAN I was the first in my family to go to college, and so, growing up, I thought that dressing well open... JOSEPH ABBOUD BILLY COLLINS JUAN FELIPE HERRERA I come from a family who prided themselves, both sides, on memory. And I was told growing up, consta... ROBBIE ROBERTSON DEYTH BANGER That was our strategy against him, to play over and in. I was trying to guard against a hit in front... CASEY BLAKE I always enjoyed art history because, growing up in California, my exposure was limited, and it was ... HERB RITTS FEISAL ABDUL RAUF HUSTON SMITH RYAN GOSLING I never really fit in growing up. I got made fun of a lot of the time in high school. People never l... MAGDA APANOWICZ STEVE HARVEY I was surprised, and everyone ran onto the streets because we really felt the shaking. DANIEL LEONARD I think the fact that I was able to compete against some great athletes is really going to help me. ... BRADLEY STARKS That result at the French was a big break for me. I had been playing quite well up until that point ... JO DURIE STELLA YOUNG JESSE JACKSON RICK SMOLAN Protestantism came to America to make America Protestant. It was assumed that was to be done through... STANLEY HAUERWAS It was devastating watching on TV and not being able to do anything. A lot was going on in my mind a... BARRY CRYER Although both sides of my family were religious, I was never forced to practice the Jewish faith. I ... GEORG SOLTI For me, becoming a celebrity was like being in the eye of a hurricane. Suddenly, I was an internatio... MARGAUX HEMINGWAY But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor... SUE MILLER DEYTH BANGER EDEN HAZARD TIM GUNN Why I felt the need to always disobey everyone around me was beyond me. But I guess being sixteen ye... KRISTY BERRIDGE TED ALLEN GRACE JONES You know, even growing up going to school, I had teachers that were against bilingual teaching. I ne... EMILY RIOS HARVEY FIERSTEIN I met the team in Minnesota. I pinch-hit against Eddie Guardado and struck out. We came back home an... MARK LORETTA It was examinations (in school) that drove my wits away, as all emergencies do. Being expected to me... EUDORA WELTY HUNTER S. THOMPSON The first time I came onto the ice I had to squint a little bit. I was really nervous going in but t... ANDREW PINSENT LAURA MVULA TOM LEHRER YAEL NAIM I remember my first actor that I really, really fell in love with was Tom Hanks. I suppose when I wa... IAIN DE CAESTECKER All my life I've been rowing against the tide. What can I do? It seems I was born that way. JOSE MUJICA
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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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Even when I was rebelling against my father, the point was to follow my own intuition and instinct. 
I didn't have time to be anybody's muse; I was too busy rebelling against my parents and lea... 
I'm not messy. I'm rebelling against folding. 
I don't know what I would have done to rebel. I don't know what I was rebelling against. 
Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and
deliberately, rebel against anything that does... 
Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does ... 
Actually... I'm starting a new thing and rebelling against ridiculously high heels. It's inh... 
I did fine in school. School was cool until I started personally rebelling. 
I was the product of very young parents, and they had wild ways. My mother was in a punk band. Rebel... 
My characters were...rebelling against something...My own bad writing. I wouldn't do for my characte... 
Not a lot of people would think that I spent most of my early years totally rebelling against anythi... 
When I look at it carefully, by examining the interviews and the various social scientists’ studie... 
The instinct of self-preservation in human society, acting almost subconsciously, as do all drives i... 
Yes, I made mistakes by rebelling, by acting out in confused ways. 
I realized that conventional views of Christian faith that I'd heard when I was growing up were ... 
Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn't understand me, and he was sort of hol... 
My power grew angry that it was confined to my petite frame and pulled against my taut skin. Growing... 
It was about family, albeit dysfunctional. But it was about family, and I think that?s what draws pe... 
Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said, 'Oh man, this is the stuff.' I... 
The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and... 
The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and... 
When I was growing up, Dr. Seuss was really my favorite. There was something about the lyrical natur... 
The one thing I really lucked out on is that all through my teenage years, when my sister was a life... 
When we were growing up our parents somehow made it clear that being famous was good. And I mistaken... 
My biggest influence growing up was Avicii, who put me onto creating the sorts of melodies that feat... 
There was the movement on the West Coast and there was just a general consciousness that was coming ... 
I was very superstitious when I was a teenager, and I had to fight against that because it made me f... 
And the day came out... the mask was removed... and who was behind it?
Far from making me feel different and special, my [spiritual] experiences made me feel the same, ord... 
Growing up, I liked all the stuff that everyone else was listening to, like Motown, but the biggest ... 
When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the ot... 
Would not obeying to my mother's warnings, who is at least 25 years older than me, be returning ... 
Well, the stuff that I liked growing up was AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, but I also liked the Beatles and gu... 
I was born into a family of preachers. 
Growing up, the way that I looked was very important to me. I was always trying to impress people, a... 
Man, I just feel blessed... I was in a situation where the only way I could come out of it was by pu... 
I was never pushed into the religion by my mother or anyone else. I made up my own mind when I was o... 
I think if a poet wanted to lead, he or she would want the message to be unequivocally clear and fre... 
What I really had was stories, the oral traditions of my parents. We moved so much that that was rea... 
The battleground has been moderates of all faith traditions in all the countries of the world agains... 
The faith I was born into formed me. I come from a missionary family - I grew up in China - and in m... 
I never was that boy who loved gangster films, but when I was growing up, I was obsessed with the de... 
All I knew growing up was that my father was married to and loved my momma, period. He worked hard, ... 
My mother loves to remind me that about the age of four, I made a somewhat formal announcement that ... 
I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me. 
My dad was actually against me being a photographer. He thought it was a dead-end job and that you e... 
What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw! 
When I was small, I was the same as everyone else. I used to play in a small council estate nearby. ... 
Part of what was in the ether all around me growing up, until I was between 19 and 20, was a terribl... 
I first got into food with my mother, just Southern cooking, really bad for you food (just delicious... 
My dad's family were political and he was always a theatrical creature, whereas my mum is really... 
My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his ... 
The difference between the student radicals and the Hell's Angels is that the students are rebelling... 
There was always a piano in the house when I was growing up - my dad played, and I thought it was co... 
One of the things I'm proudest of is, on my record 'That Was the Year that Was' in 1965,... 
My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone... 
You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ... 
I think I get a lot of ideas from when I was a kid, listening to Casey Kasem's 'American Top... 
A musician's attempt to summarize his or her work leads to all this prescriptive chatter, or wha... 
I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird... 
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. 
My personal trainer is an ex-dancer so we do a lot of ballet and jazz. 
I really do feel now that the way I dress onstage and for work is a true reflection of my own sense ... 
It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I wa... 
In those days a concert was a personal experience. I wanted to be as close as possible to the audien... 
I don't know much about my biological background. 
I'm shocked at being recognized. You go to places you don't think you would be and still, yo... 
Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts. 
I love the live performances and Las Vegas. I also like making films that are being discovered by an... 
Nothing you wear is more important than your smile. 
My kids are pretty secure, bright, and know who they are. 