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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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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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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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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As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.
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I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined, so we can move through them.
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The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.
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Challenge everything in life. Never accept the norm.
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If honey bees become extinct, human society will follow in four years.
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People are just funny sometimes if you find the right character.
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There is always something left to lose.
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My further advice on your relations to women is based upon that other motto of chivalry, "Serve all, love one."
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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.
