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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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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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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The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.
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I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy with in all the time I've been doing it.
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Rank beliefs not according to their plausibility but by the harm they may cause.
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Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.
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To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.
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In 1962, we created the Filmmakers' Co-Op because nobody wanted to distribute our films. If we had the Internet in those days, we wouldn't have needed the Co-Op.
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I was very curious about the world even at a young age, and I don't know at what point I became aware that other cultures believed in different religions, and my question was, 'Well, why don't they get to go to Heaven then?'
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My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world.
