Sarah Vowell Quotes
Assassins and presidents invite the same basic question: Just who do you think you are?Sarah Vowell
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I find it very difficult to say no when I'm in Ireland. You do end up going around doing lots of events and things and not getting work done, and it's not just a question of having hours at the desk.
Kate Thompson -
If you're playing in a room that holds 15,000 people, it's just a question of how bad the room acoustics are and in what way they're bad.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
There is something fascinating about every human being. The question is how much they're willing to divulge.
Nathaniel Rich -
And it's a question of how far we're willing to go in order to let the ego shine, in order to let that beacon penetrate not only the local scene but the world.
Taylor Hackford -
When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.
J. J. Abrams -
I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.
Abraham Lincoln
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As a press secretary and on 'The Five,' I've learned that I have a choice in how I answer a question. There's combative or productive - I get to take my pick.
Dana Perino -
There's no question that consumers are looking for value today.
Irene Rosenfeld -
The question of what it is to live an 'authentic life', that's a complicated one.
Eddie Redmayne -
States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.
Victor Davis Hanson -
I'm interested in how we react when we're heavily pressed. When we're vulnerable and our survival is in question, how do we behave?
Paolo Bacigalupi -
Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.
Carl Jung
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Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
Natalie Clifford Barney -
The question tonight, as I understand it, is 'The Negro Revolt, and Where Do We Go From Here?' or What Next?' In my little humble way of understanding it, it points toward either the ballot or the bullet.
Malcolm X -
The question I propose to consider is in what way one may justify the study of English on cultural and disciplinary, and not merely on sentimental or utilitarian, grounds. My own conviction is that if English is to be thus justified it must be primarily by what I am terming the discipline of ideas.
Irving Babbitt -
To the jury foreman in the second trial: 'Mr. Rodriguez? Can I ask you a question? What do you think a grown man up in his 40s is doing sleeping with one little boy after the next, all by himself, locked up in his bedroom, every night? That doesn't bother you? It bothers me.'
Nancy Grace -
'People will challenge you, question you, try to get you off track. Don't listen to the temptation to act out of character.'
T. B. Joshua -
I'm very lucky because I don't half get some juicy jobs. But I can't tell you the number I've turned down in the past 20 years because I wanted to be at home, looking after my son. There was never any question about that. Alfie and I are dead close. I can't bear it when he's away.
Lesley Manville
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Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality.
Leonard Shlain -
Nothing is without cost. There is a price to all power, and it is not always obvious.
Tad Williams -
I first went to Barcelona in 1975 after university, and I stayed for three years. I learnt Catalan because that's what everyone speaks in the mountains. They speak English to foreigners, but what people say to each other is much more important than what they say to you.
Colm Toibin -
I love the sound of voices singing together, congregational singing, anything like gospel, or folk, or sea shanties.
Andrew Hozier-Byrne -
For a moment the last sunshine fell with romantic affection upon her glowing face; her voice compelled me forward breathlessly as I listened - then the glow faded, each light deserting her with lingering regret, like children leaving a pleasant street at dusk.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Assassins and presidents invite the same basic question: Just who do you think you are?
Sarah Vowell