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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The Management of money is, in much, the management of self. If heaven allotted to each man seven guardian angels, five of them, at least, would be found night and day hovering over his pockets.
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Very often, people confuse simple with simplistic. The nuance is lost on most.
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It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one must not introduce a rival programme before everybody agrees that the point of degeneration has probably been reached.
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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.
