Sarah Vowell Quotes
But when I am around strangers, I turn into a conversational Mount St. Helens. I'm dormant, dormant, quiet, quiet, old-guy loners build log cabins on the slopes of my silence and then, boom, it's 1980. Once I erupt, they'll be wiping my verbal ashes off their windshields as far away as North Dakota.
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Pop culture, it's crazy. There's all this violence in video games. In 'Call of Duty,' people are literally just blowing other people up. Hey, let's protect your country from your couch while eating your sandwich.
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When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
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I like someone who's not afraid to be a kid!
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I think Jennifer Lawrence is a brilliant role model for young girls, not some of the models that I see on the runway.
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You can't be new for too long. You want to just respectfully disappear. It's a bit sad sometimes. Michael Jordan retired like a god, and then he came back... We don't want to go out like that.
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I go to Japan every November on vacation, and the one thing I never return home without is yuba, which is the thin skin that forms atop boiling soy milk. You skim it off and either eat it fresh or dry it.
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The majority of my work is about preparation.
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Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.
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I believe firmly in the efficacy of religion, in its powerful influence on a person's whole life. It helps immeasurably to meet the storms and stress of life and keep you attuned to the Divine inspiration. Without inspiration, we would perish.
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Every man and every woman is a star.
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I have something to say about the difference between American and European cities, but I forgot what it was. I have it written down at home somewhere.
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The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.
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You need to gain the confidence that you're doing enough on film. You must resist the temptation to do too much.
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My dream was to not work for anyone. There's only so many things I was good at - and how am I not going to work for anyone? I just don't want people telling me what to do.
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I couldn't do country, with all due respect to all country music artists. My parents dressed me up with a cowboy hat and we'd go to the rodeo when I was younger and it traumatized me for life.
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It's not about someone making a difference on their own; it's about everybody pulling together to make a difference.
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But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.
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I'm not for the sort of trade deals that hollow out our standards while they hollow out our middle class and middle class wages.
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My first novel, 'You Must be Sisters,' was started in Pakistan. I've wrote several novels and a TV drama set or partly-set there.
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Speech is the small change of silence.
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I'm addicted to the dynamics of relationships whether they be in love, work, between strangers on the streets, or in the world in general.
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I don't believe that classical architecture is enough to engage people anymore. They say: 'So what else is new?'
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But when I am around strangers, I turn into a conversational Mount St. Helens. I'm dormant, dormant, quiet, quiet, old-guy loners build log cabins on the slopes of my silence and then, boom, it's 1980. Once I erupt, they'll be wiping my verbal ashes off their windshields as far away as North Dakota.
