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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Since ancient times, philosophers have maintained that to strive too hard for one's own happiness is self-defeating.
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On 2006 Israel-Lebanese war '..the net result is you have an Israeli government in disarray and a United States administration so identified with Israeli failure right now that it hurts the United States around the world.'
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Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you are dealing with the same magnitude.
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The customs of the world are so many conventional follies.
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My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world.
