Sarah Vowell Quotes
Why is America the last best hope of Earth? What if it's Liechtenstein? Or, worse, Canada?
Sarah Vowell
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I hope people don't think I'm crazy, because I'm not.
Macaulay Culkin
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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'.
Yuna
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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.
Madeleine Albright
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
D. H. Lawrence
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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.
Yves Saint Laurent
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Sports are one of the main cultural activities on the face of the earth.
Jack Kent Cooke
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No, the reward comes in knowing that our entire way of life in America depends on the rule of law; that the maintenance of that law is a hard and daily labor; that in this country, we don’t have soldiers in the streets or militias setting the rules. Instead, we have public servants - police officers - like the men who were taken away from us.
Barack Obama
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Sometimes when earth's gods are homesick they visit in the still of the night the peaks where once they dwelt, and weep softly as they try to play in the olden way on remembered slopes.
H. P. Lovecraft
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I saw the Indian Brahmans living on the earth and not on it, walled without walls, and with no possessions except the whole world.
Apollonius of Tyana
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People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best.
David Chalmers
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The pure Deity is in all places and all corners, and present every where all over: the birth of the holy Trinity in one essence is every where: and the angelical world reacheth to every part, wherever you can think, even in the midst of the earth, stones, and rocks: as also hell and the kingdom of God's wrath is every where all over.
Jakob Bohme
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Latinos have fought in all of America's wars, beginning with the Revolutionary War. Many Latinos are fighting and dying for our country today in Iraq, just as several of their ancestors fought for freedom in Mexico over a century ago.
Joe Baca
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And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.
Oliver Herford
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Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
Abraham Lincoln
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How to save the old that's worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.
John Galsworthy
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That's why I loved Dinah Washington. She sung jazz, but they called her the Queen of the Blues. She had the control and sophistication of jazz in her note selection and how to attack a song or certain lines, but then attacked it with a painful force of blues behind it. That's why I admired her so much, because of that versatility.
Andra Day
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Why is America the last best hope of Earth? What if it's Liechtenstein? Or, worse, Canada?
Sarah Vowell
