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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I met people on college campuses who were defining themselves as genderqueer to express revolutionary feelings, or to communicate their individuality; they were gender fluid without being gender dysphoric. This phenomenon may be culturally significant, but it has only a little bit in common with the people who feel they can have no authentic self in their birth gender.
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Fear not, Cesario, take thy fortunes up. Be that thou know'st thou art and then thou art as great as that thou fear'st.
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I was lucky, as many of my generation was, in having a man like Dr. King in our lives. He came at a time that we needed to take a long look at each other and see how similar we were.
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Every day, I wake up, and the first thing I think of is my kids.
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While we dance in the streets and pat ourselves on the back for being a nation great enough to reach beyond racial divides to elect our first African-American president let us not forget that we remain a nation still proudly practicing prejudice.
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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.
