Sarah Vowell Quotes
History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.
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There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened.
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My public in Guadalajara and the people from Guadalajara, they've supported me since day one.
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My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.
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I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.
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I usually try to eat in my restaurants before I fly, as I'd rather sleep on the plane and just order a salad with cheese, maybe some ice cream.
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If I had my druthers, I would be a brain in a jar, with a burlap skirt around the cart I'm on - I don't attend to my physical being much.
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We write the song, then it gets played for the artist, and they somehow fall in love with it and go back in and make it their own.
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Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
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Well, it really describes what it feels like to be a normal person whose boss and friend suddenly runs for the president, and then becomes the president.
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Coach Morris wasn't too hard on me, not at all. Being drafted where I was at, there were high expectations for me. I still have high expectations for myself.
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If Russia did interfere in our election - and, by most accounts, they did - then it is imperative for the health of our democracy to have a thorough and unbiased investigation into the matter.
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'Egalitarians' who complain about inequality view the wealth of the wealthiest as bad in itself: it disfigures society. They would enact a wealth tax to extirpate the offending wealth.
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It's just my goal to deliver the best story I can, and I want to make sure each book is better than the last, and in order to do that, I have to take chances.
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Dennis Martinez's perfect game at Dodger Stadium, July 28, 1991, based off of video on mlb.com
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I can't shoot myself in the foot before I get in the chorus line.
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I read Christopher McDougall's book 'Born to Run.' If running were a religion, this would be its bible. I actually scribbled my favorite passages on my arm to read during the race.
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The voluntary approach to corporate social responsibility has failed in many cases.
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If you've got a guitar and a lot of soul, just bang something out and mean it. You're the superstar.
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The growing inequality of wealth and income distribution is both a moral and economic problem. If the wealthy are unwilling to pay more taxes, then this is going to lead to spending cuts. And if you put off the table things like national defense, then you're going to end up cutting more and more out of programs that aid the poor. So, I think there are consequences to this idea that tolerance for inequality requires us to - to just do nothing to make the wealthy contribute a higher share of resources to fund the government.
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I don't think women are interesting enough to merit a book. They're more of a pamphlet sex.
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It's the continuation of everyone's childhood to see these young children who grow up full of life, full of intelligence, full of a sense of wonder. And within an instant they're gone from this world. It's terrible.
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I think that because I have so many different influences, and that shows in my music, that different people can connect with it.
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History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.
