Sarah Vowell Quotes
Why is America the last best hope of Earth? What if it's Liechtenstein? Or, worse, Canada?
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I hope people don't think I'm crazy, because I'm not.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
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When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
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The world wants to like America.
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The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.
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My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.
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The business of America is business.
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Sports are one of the main cultural activities on the face of the earth.
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I'm definitely a glass-is-always-half-full, not half-empty, kind of person. Which is why I love living in America.
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I am optimistic that peace can be achieved in the region because I believe that every society on earth can be free and that if freedom comes to the Middle East, there can be peace.
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The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
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I think the older that I'm getting, the more I'm understand what a privileged job I have, and what an opportunity I have. Now I'm directing films and I'm getting my first movie in America off the ground, and you start to understand how the system really works.
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People still try to sell books that way - as 'books can take you to foreign lands.' We've given children this idea that reading and books are a nice option, if you want that kind of thing. I hope we can get over that idea.
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I think I came back from America a funnier and nicer person than I went.
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We examine and highlight the history of the African descendants in America, and know that each and every one of us has come this far because of our faith in this country.
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Germany has spent the decades since World War II in national penance for Nazi crimes. America spent the decades after the Civil War transforming Confederate crimes into virtues. It is illegal to fly the Nazi flag in Germany. The Confederate flag is enmeshed in the state flag of Mississippi.
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Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.
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The best way to deal with any economic problem is to let the market work it through.
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Every book is like starting over again. I've written books every way possible - from using tight outlines to writing from the seat of my pants. Both ways work.
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We need men and women to sit down and talk to each other about sex honestly and openly. That would help us fight Aids so immediately. But our lack of communication is hugely problematic.
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Why is America the last best hope of Earth? What if it's Liechtenstein? Or, worse, Canada?
