Sarah Vowell Quotes
While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

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Brain cells are normally not sensitive to light. So by introducing light-sensitive proteins into specific types of neurons, we can now selectively control that specific type of neuron by shining light in the brain.
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First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn't as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people.
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I played a lot of squash for a lot of years.
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I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time.
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Napster has pointed the way for a new direction for music distribution, and we believe it will form the basis of important and exciting new business models for the future of the music industry.
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You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.
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My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
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I would definitely go back and do theater; I talk about theater all the time.
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I believe in my music.
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I think that if you can't be loyal to the Church, it's best to get out.
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I will say this about the Miz: Even though I don't like his wrestling style, he is a very hard worker. I have a huge amount of respect for him, and I want him to do well.
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Technology has changed things, same as everywhere. But the economy has changed drastically. When Jamaica first won independence, our dollar was stronger than the U.S. dollar. Now ours is about 90 to one. That's had a big impact on crime and poverty.
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You should never go on diet and must follow a healthy lifestyle.
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I chose the Egyptian dream: the dream to make a TV show, and then be called an infidel by the end.
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Yeah I grew up on the Westside of Detroit.
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The FA Cup is something we want to win, but when you play for Chelsea, it is not something you think about a lot because you want to win every game.
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I'm always surprised when large numbers of people buy my books.
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Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?
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I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.
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The best thing about modern living is anaesthesia.
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So long as a novelist works selfishly for the pleasure of creating character and situation corresponding to his own illusions, ideals and intuitions, he will always produce something worth while and natural. Directly he takes himself too seriously and begins for the alleged benefit of humanity an elaborate dissection of complexes, he evolves a book that is more ridiculous and tiresome than the most conventional cold cream girl novel of yesterday.
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People get so riled up, and they wanna fight shows, but all they have to do is turn it off, and you see what happens? The show goes off. That's all you have to do. You don't have to fight anybody. You don't have to hold up signs.
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While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.