Suzanne Vega Quotes
My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
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I feel like every word I say now, I can really inspire people.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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I wasn't a great debater.
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Sometimes my schedule doesn't allow time to go to the hotel after I get off the plane, so I bring my Freebird boots or my old school Adidas shell-toes to throw on after I land.
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
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In my opinion, baseball is as big a business as anything there is. It has to be a business, the way it is conducted.
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I grew up on a farm in Oregon, an adopted child, with one sibling, and parents the age of all my peers' grandparents. We lived in isolation from the people around us, and it was always a struggle to cope with as a child. The heart can really expire under those conditions. I always felt like I was looking at the world from the outside.
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Protecting eagles from the threat of extinction is a conservation success story that we must prudently safeguard for future generations to come.
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I've never had a problem with people paying attention to what you're doing and say they find that they liked it.
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I'm a lot girlier than the roles that I play. I joke with Tricia Helfer all the time that she's my muscle.
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Looks, health and elegance are what counts. Someone can look wonderful in a sweatsuit.
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Whether it's MMA or wrestling, I try to find the best people and go after the best people.
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I was putting all those pressures on myself.
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I never really enjoyed getting a portfolio together then sending it out; whereas, putting up the website is quite an enjoyable experience. The net's just a much faster and more modern way to distribute things, and you have to embrace it.
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When I got involved with The Five Crowns who later became The Drifters, and we got this hit record, I still was looking at this as kind of a fun thing.
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We were really interested in music from all over the world. We realized that what we were doing was very close to contemporary classical music because of the lack of tonality in the guitar- the fact that I play guitar the way I play.
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My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world.
