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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If Romeo and Juliet make a tragedy of it nowadays, they have only to blame their own mismanagement, for the world is with them as it has never been before, and all sensible fathers and mothers know it.
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All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.
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I think President Barack Obama is going to be treated very, very well by history in terms of his ability to save the economy. And that's certainly true in rural areas. The unemployment rate is substantially reduced, the poverty rate is down, and in large part because of the investments that were made during the Recovery Act and thereafter, historic investments.
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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.
