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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When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.
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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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Any time the Western way of war can be unleashed on an enemy stupid enough to enter its arena, victory is assured.
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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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We're not lawbreakers, we're law-abiding, and intend to stay that way.
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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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What is pleasanter than the tie of host and guest?
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You might win some, but you just lost one.
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That's why investigations are so important, to drill down and to connect those dots and to get the facts. What we have is a lot of smoke that causes us to want to know more about what has happened.
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Well, executive producer can mean anything in the world of Hollywood, sadly. It can be a bought title in many instances.
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If you don't ask, you don't get.
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Urban man lives only in dreaming.
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It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.
