Suzy Bogguss (Susan Kay Bogguss) Quotes
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I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.
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As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
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When everything is going well, the role of the state in the economy should be limited. When we are in a crisis, it's different.
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I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper.
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It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
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Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.
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I love all sorts of music. I'm really into Damian Rice and Amos Lee.
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I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.
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Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?
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I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.
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I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write.
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I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.
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We signed up for Showtime, which I think put us on a Homeland Security list somewhere.
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With my human rights advocacy, that's always been through my writing. I've always tried to write articles and contribute to journals and a lot of online journals - about human rights, especially Palestinian human rights. I find the time to do things to do things I'm passionate about, because I find enjoyment in them. I just have to juggle.
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I was afraid the other musicians might want to present themselves too much, though I see in the coverage I've received of the album that the musicians got wonderful reviews for their contributions and abilities. I think the four musicians played freely within my limits.
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I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
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For me, I have to say that I like to work a lot too, but I like not working better. The perfect scenario is when you just worked and you know something's coming up, then you have four, five, six months off. But you know you're going to have a job later.
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Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.
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I was complexed and awkward that I was good for nothing and was always lying. I would lie to my school friends that I was a stud in my colony and to my colony friends that I was a stud in the school cricket and football teams, though I was in no team.
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I love Manchester. I love Manchester United. But I would really struggle to be creative there. I feel a bit lost, over-familiar maybe. Maybe too stuck in my own web of history.
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Whatever a man does he must do first in his mind.
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I can truly say - and this in virtue of the whole structure of my thought - that I now feel more indissolubly bound to the hierarchical Church and to the Christ of the Gospel than ever before in my life. Never has Christ seemed to me more real, more personal or more immense.
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The world doesn't want to be punished. It wants to remain in darkness. It doesn't want to be told that what it believes is false. If you also don't want to be corrected, then you might as well leave the church and spend your time at the bar and brothel. But if you want to be saved-and remember that there's another life after this one-you must accept correction.
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My first solo was in church when I was five.
