Suzanne Vega Quotes

The thing that is most interesting about people is the way they are when no one is looking at them or the way they are when they are in private.

Suzanne Vega

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• All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Work
  • Education
  • Food

• We were pressured to accept kids we were not qualified to handle. And we do that to people all the time, which is why we don't have enough foster parents.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • People
  • Time
  • Why

• I do find that it's easier to get Latino-themed movies... but I don't think there's that stigma anymore. I think that what's harder is to be a woman, not to be a Latina.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Woman
  • Movies
  • Find

• As we try to compete in this global marketplace, we need to rebuild our infrastructure. We need to rebuild our schools. We need to make sure that teachers and first responders and veterans who are coming home from serving our country so proudly have jobs waiting for them.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Country
  • Home
  • Waiting

• The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • More
  • Selfish
  • Lazy

• When we make progress and get better at something, it is inherently motivating. In order for people to make progress, they have to get feedback and information on how they're doing.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Progress
  • Feedback

• At least I had that, one guy understood me.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Understood

• If I ever get looks on the street, which, for the record, is almost never, it's rarely because they think I'm someone they saw in a movie. More often someone sees me and thinks, 'Hey, was that guy my waiter the other night?'

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Guy

• I personally don't like to use as many effects because when you play live, something always goes wrong.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Live
  • You
  • Play

• Atoms consist of a positive nucleus and negative electrons flying around outside it. Electrons closest to the nucleus feel a strong negative-on-positive tug, and the bigger atoms get, the bigger the tug. In really big atoms, electrons whip around at speeds close to the speed of light.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Strong
  • Light
  • Positive

• We are not saints, gods, spiritual human beings that we can sit and decide whether a film will do well or not. It is not in our hands.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Spiritual
  • Human
  • Hands

• Il y a toujours quelque chose d’absent qui me tourmente.

  

  Camille Claudel

• Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • Family
  • Relationship
  • Sister

• Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.

  

  Dean Koontz
  • Great

• There are some artists that don't like working with other females, which is fine. They have their own thing. I personally love being surrounded by other females.

  

  Bonnie McKee

• I had to learn right away how to improvise behind Ornette, which not only meant following him from one key to another and recognizing the different keys, but modulating in a way that the keys flowed in and out of each other, and the new harmonies sounded right.

  

  Charlie Haden
  • Different

• I can tell you where my Tonys are. They're in a beautiful place in my living room, in a glass cabinet.

  

  Chita Rivera
  • Beautiful

• Between the theme parks and the movies, the Disney iconography was probably the first set of archetypes that I was exposed to. Walt was able to expose me as a child to the full array of emotions, including fear and sorrow. Those movies and attractions haunted my dreams and made a deep impression on me as a child.

  

  Jon Favreau
  • Fear
  • Deep
  • Disney

• I believe you can be young and compete in gymnastics if you have a coach who is looking out for you and if there is a good gym environment where the coaches are taking care of you emotionally and physically.

  

  Dominique Moceanu
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Environment

• Atheism is a religion of death. Though atheists make their own 'meaning' or 'purpose' while alive, ultimately atheism is all meaningless, purposeless, and utterly hopeless.

  

  Ken Ham
  • Death
  • Purpose

• In Zurich, in a cafe overlooking the Limmat, I ate butter-drenched white asparagus pulled from the ground that morning; it had the aftertaste of champagne. I've been able to appreciate epic meals in San Francisco, New Orleans, Berlin, Paris, Las Vegas.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Morning
  • Paris
  • Appreciate

• I've got a feeling that with the best coppers - and in fact the best people in any field of work - what sets them apart is a maverick quality. People who are not afraid to bend the rules in order to achieve the universally desired end.

  

  Ken Stott
  • People
  • Work
  • Feeling

• The thing that is most interesting about people is the way they are when no one is looking at them or the way they are when they are in private.

  

  Suzanne Vega
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Looking