Suzanne Vega Quotes
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Winning is everything in Hollywood.
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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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Our problems stem from our childhood. Ray was, for so long, the only boy. Then I arrive and take all his limelight away from him. That must have quite a profound effect. I sometimes think that Ray was only happy for three-and-a-half years in his life. And those were the three-and-a-half years before I was born.
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If I was to say I had a life, that would be a lie.
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In a country where Americans sense, quite genuinely, that their freedoms have been taken away by the government - as in the U.S. Patriot Act, as in NSA surveillance - people feel powerless.
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My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair.
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There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.
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It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.
