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.Sarah Vowell
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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.
Natasha Leggero -
When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
I like someone who's not afraid to be a kid!
Vanessa Hudgens -
I think Jennifer Lawrence is a brilliant role model for young girls, not some of the models that I see on the runway.
Karen Elson -
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.
Watkin Tudor Jones -
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.
Hanya Yanagihara
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The majority of my work is about preparation.
Taryn Simon -
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.
J. Edgar Hoover -
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.
Walt Disney -
Every man and every woman is a star.
Aleister Crowley -
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.
David Byrne Talking Heads -
The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.
Neil Gaiman
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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.
Mark Rylance -
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.
Brittany Howard -
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.
Chris Colfer -
It's not about someone making a difference on their own; it's about everybody pulling together to make a difference.
Paolo Nutini -
But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.
Lydia M. Child -
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.
Martin O'Malley
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Emulation is grief arising from seeing one's self, exceeded or excelled by his concurrent, together with hope to equal or exceed him in time to come, by his own ability. But envy is the same grief joined with pleasure conceived in the imagination of some ill-fortune that may befall him.
Thomas Hobbes -
People may believe that there can be a society where dissent is not permitted, but which is nonetheless not a fear society because everyone agrees with one another and therefore no one wants to dissent.
Natan Sharansky -
My brain doesn't like to be quiet.
Dan Fogler -
It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Traveling and other cultures provide me with great inspiration, especially unusual people and cultures totally unlike my own. They generate many new ideas for me.
Kansai Yamamoto -
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.
Sarah Vowell