Sarah Vowell Quotes
Jesus and Lincoln, Moses and Jefferson can seem so long gone, so unbelievable, so dead.
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I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.
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I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.
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There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.
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Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.
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I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces.
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I was privileged to grow up in Mexico at a time when you could play in the streets. We lived not too far from the ocean, and we would be outside all the time with the neighbours' kids, running free. What better place could there be for a child?
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People aren't just paying more to fill their gas tanks or when they pay for their heating bills for their home; they are paying more at the grocery store, on air travel and for many other daily expenses.
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Starting a new business will take its toll on your time and energy, and this can place strain on family and social relationships, depending on their expectations and how open you are in your communication with them.
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The Democrats promised equalizing outcomes through unlimited federal assistance while Republicans offered something that seemed less tangible - the promise of equalizing opportunity through free markets.
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I think it is very good for the country, for the world, and especially for the Democrats that Harry Reid is retiring.
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Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose your absolute decrees.
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I played the game one way. I gave it everything I had. It doesn't take any ability to hustle.
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During these two and a half years that have followed the war, the most urgent problem we have encountered was: to activate the public enterprises, to bring them up to the level that international markets demand and we are just now getting them prepared for privatization.
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I don't think I talk to anybody the same way I talk to Moby.
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I'm very interested in compassion - compassion for oneself and others. I write about very complicated characters and experiences and try to do it without judging the character or the action.
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If I sought to answer all of the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would be engaged in little else in the course of the day, and I would have no time for constructive work.
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I'm very pessimistic about the future of the human species. We have been so indifferent to life on the whole that it will take its toll. It's not just the polar bears that are having a hard time; what we're doing is gradually impoverishing and poisoning the whole of the rest of life.
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I'm sorry that I did not become the world's first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.
