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.
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I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.
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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.
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At least I had that, one guy understood me.
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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?'
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I personally don't like to use as many effects because when you play live, something always goes wrong.
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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.
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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.
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Il y a toujours quelque chose d’absent qui me tourmente.
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Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
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Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.
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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.
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I'm a huge 'Eastbound & Down' fan. I'm an enormous Danny McBride fan.
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I guess my ambition is simply to keep doing what I'm doing for as long as I can.
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The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision.
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It's crazy because I have a scar on my right eyebrow, but people who don't know me very well think that I just intentionally shave that part of it.
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Every second, every day, every year, we fail to address demand for reproductive health and family planning services. Lives are lost, and girls' opportunities to thrive and contribute to their country's development shrink. These are real people.
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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.
