Sarah Vowell Quotes
Oh my dear, idealists are the cruelest monsters of them all.
Sarah Vowell
Quotes to Explore
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I started at Pixar the month 'Monsters Inc.' came out.
Dan Scanlon
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A monster, I think, remembering what Ben told me once. War makes Monsters of Men.
Patrick Ness
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... we performers are monsters. We are a totally different, far-out race of people. I totally and completely admit, with no qualmsat all, my egomania, my selfishness, coupled with a really magnificent voice.
Leontyne Price
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he was the monster that stalked nightmare and they both knew it
Nalini Singh
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Monsters exist because they are part of the divine plan, and in the horrible features of those same monsters the power of the creator is revealed.
Umberto Eco
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I have a heart, says science, but I am a monster, says society.
Tahereh Mafi
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I loved you. I was a pentapod monster, but I loved you. I was despicable and brutal, and turpid, and everything, mais je t’aimais, je t’aimais!
Vladimir Nabokov
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Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil.
William Penn
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The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites. The idealists are not usually realistic, and the realists are not usually idealistic. The militant are not generally known to be passive, nor the passive to be militant. Seldom are the humble self-assertive, or the self-assertive humble. But life at it's best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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My mommy always said there were no monsters - no real ones - but there are.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Why, thou deboshed fish thou...Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish and half a monster?
William Shakespeare
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I shall laugh myself to death at this puppy-headed
monster!
William Shakespeare
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But jealous souls will not be answered so, They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealous for they're jealous. 'Tis a monster Begot upon itself, born on itself.
William Shakespeare
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I actually saw the loch ness monster when I was 9. She was big as a house. Want to know who the loch ness monster is? It's your obese mother. Burn mother****er
Thomas Edward Yorke
Atoms for Peace
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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Do you know, I always thought unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before!" Well, now that we have seen each other," said the unicorn, "if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.
Lewis Carroll
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Desire, despair, desire. So many monsters.
Annie Lennox
Eurythmics
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I certainly had this fascination with monsters and vampires as did Tim and whatever this darkness, this mystery, this intrigue. And then, as you get older, you recognize the erotic nature of the vampire and the idea of the undead.
Johnny Depp
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I'm very scared of water. When you don't see the water... I imagine monsters - stupid things.
Eva Green
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You never know a line is crooked unless you have a straight one to put next to it.
Socrates
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People with a scarcity mentality tend to see everything in terms of win-lose. There is only so much; and if someone else has it, that means there will be less for me. The more principle-centered we become, the more we develop an abundance mentality, the more we are genuinely happy for the successes, well-being, achievements, recognition, and good fortune of other people. We believe their success adds to...rather than detracts from...our lives.
Stephen Covey
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Tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.
Brennan Manning
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What's interesting for me as an artist is when I'm able to take a cover and put my own twist on it. Sing it in my voice. Playing a cover doesn’t necessarily mean doing the song exactly the way it was originally recorded. If I do a cover, I always want to make it my own somehow.
Jesse Kramer
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Oh my dear, idealists are the cruelest monsters of them all.
Sarah Vowell
