Suzanne Vega Quotes
If language were liquid, it would be rushing in. Instead here we are in a silence more eloquent than any word could ever be.
Quotes to Explore
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So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
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I am an emotional and fragile person. I observe life, I am perceptive and can read a person's body language. I have a strong journalistic streak in me, and had I not been a filmmaker, I would have become a film journalist. I have combined my perceptive and journalistic traits to create my own brand of cinema.
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Genes are like the story, and DNA is the language that the story is written in.
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I love discovering compelling new ideas and doing what I can to help spread the word about them.
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The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
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Home is the nicest word there is.
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
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It is very difficult to work in another language, and it is also very challenging.
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Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word.
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'Feminism' is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isn't it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldn't it?
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I love to draw and paint. I'm very active in that way, but I'm not very good with the written word, though.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
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The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.
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Fashion is a language. Some know it, some learn it, some never will - like an instinct.
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A gloss is a total system of perception and language.
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'Harat' is actually - it's a Lebanese dialect word. It comes from 'the mapmaker,' somebody who makes a map. And it basically means somebody who tells fibs or exaggerate tales a little bit.
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People are never quiet. It's go, go, go. I'm a go-getter, but you need rest and silence, just to sit around and think about things.
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Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.
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[S]he leans into this guy and rocks her head like I’m making this music for her, when if I could, I would take it all away and give her as much silence as she’s given me pain.
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I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.
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To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.
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It's always the small people who change things. It's never the politicians or the big guys. I mean, who pulled down the Berlin wall? It was all the people in the streets. The specialists didn't have a clue the day before.
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When I was a young fellow I was knocked down plenty. I wanted to stay down, but I couldn’t. I had to collect the two dollars for winning or go hungry. I had to get up. I was one of those hungry fighters. You could have hit me on the chin with a sledgehammer for five dollars. When you haven’t eaten for two days you’ll understand.
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If language were liquid, it would be rushing in. Instead here we are in a silence more eloquent than any word could ever be.
