Suzanne Vega Quotes
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People sometimes recognize me here, but they are very nice.
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Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
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I don't ever want to stop making country, and I don't want to stop making electronic music, either.
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Truth never damages a cause that is just.
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As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.
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People think that Israelis are mean, evil people who only want to hurt Arabs all day.
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I try to stick to a certain diet all the time, and then when I feel like a reward, I have it. I try to stick to no dairy, no sugar, no wheat.
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The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
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I'm obsessed with 'Homeland.' It's not even okay.
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Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world - and there clearly are - then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.
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Any time you see someone more successful than you are, they are doing something you aren't.
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If I'd ever grown prosperous like he was, I'd not have waited for my beloved's death before I erected a Taj Mahal.
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The nature of this melancholy becomes clearer, once one asks the question, with whom does the historical writer of historicism actually empathize. The answer is irrefutably with the victor. Those who currently rule are however the heirs of all those who have ever been victorious. Empathy with the victors thus comes to benefit the current rulers every time.
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Cinema has evolved in two paths. One is spectacle. Like the phantasmagoria, its goal is the creation of a total substitute sensory world. The other is peep show, which claims for its realm both the erotic and the untampered observance of real life, and imitates the keyhole or voyeur's window without need of color, noise, grandeur.
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I was on vacation with my family when I got the scripts for 'Wanderlust' and I was trying to work on the audition while I was on vacation. I remember a big gust of wind blew the entire script into the pool, so I had to dry it with a hairdryer.
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I used to think I was going to die wise, and now, the one wisdom I have is I know very little.
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A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting.
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I am whelmed, and not overly whelmed, just whelmed about a lot of facets in life - just how fragile life is and the different challenges you have in life, phobias about things.
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Modelling was never a career option for me; it was always a hobby. I was modelling while I was pursuing my B.Tech, so the obvious choice after finishing my studies was to do a job. But while I was modelling and doing TV commercials, I really loved being in front of the camera. I enjoyed the shooting process.
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The U.S., France, Germany and Canada have all responded to the financial crisis by boosting rather than cutting their science funding. The U.K. has not.
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The awful glimpse down into the abyss of an existence without him had so staggered and appalled her heart that she felt she could never be quite the same again. However, it had opened her eyes to the fact that right down in the depths of her own heart she really had but one passionate desire, not for the things which the Shepherd had promised, but for himself. All she wanted was to be allowed to follow him forever.
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Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.
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And not only that, I also have the MacBook Air which is really cool. Even my wife is jealous of my MacBook Air.
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It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.
