Sarah Vowell Quotes
You know you've reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality.
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It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
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Hip-hop was started on groups.
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In some countries, no one knows who Idris Elba is.
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No one knows what women want!
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He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
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The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
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You know, I've been playing with my hair color ever since I was nine.
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I don't know many people who don't have somebody in their family who's a part of the gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender community. It's not like they're aliens or outsiders. This is family.
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Even if a relationship doesn't work out, you can always take something positive from something negative. You never know what's around the corner.
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Ageing doesn't mean giving up on style and individuality; it doesn't mean abandoning fashion and living in comfy slippers and flannel knickers.
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The less you know about me the easier it is to convince you that I'm the character on screen.
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After man knows the truth, he cannot be too careful of his words.
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True confidence leaves no room for jealousy. When you know your are great, you have no need to hate.
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You want to know what scares people? Success.
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Everyone knows I'm a lash girl by now. When I don't have my lashes, I feel naked.
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I always wanted to know what it felt like to fall on stage... now I know. It's not how you fall, but how you get up
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You know, there's a right and wrong way to do everything.
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The Twenties have this sort of attitude where you never know whats around the corner.
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It was my idea that if you started any kind of business, you should begin somewhere near where you hoped to end. In other words, if I wanted to make really good clothes to order, I would start out making good, and therefore expensive, clothes to order. If I started making inexpensive clothes, I thought probably I'd die making them.
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Some feel that you lose your independence if you don't let your mind just wander where it wants to, if you try to control it. But that is not the case. If your mind is proceeding in the correct way, one already has the correct opinion. But if your mind is proceeding in an incorrect way, then it's necessary, definitely, to exercise control.
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The volume and impact of these pseudo-classifications is growing, ... inhibits the free flow of critical information.
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An Obama presidency would be an amusing approximation of the Carter administration, complete with vaporous moralizing and foreign policy bungling.
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You know you've reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality.
