Sarah Vowell Quotes
There are two kinds of people in the world: the kind who alphabetize their record collections, and the kind who don't.
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It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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My feeling is, I do a lot of low-budget films. I don't do low-budget acting. I have no interest in just goofballing my way through, thinking, 'Ah, no one's ever going to see this anyway.'
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Life is too short to blend in.
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Never judge a person if you don't know him.
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America is not the center of the universe.
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Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
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Pummeling an answer out of someone never works. You cannot intimidate someone with aggressive language and think they'll be more forthcoming... that's a caricature of interrogation, part of the TV culture of what it looks like.
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When girls bully, it's very subtle, and you can't define it. At least with boys, the bullying is usually explicit, and you can deal with it. It's psychological with girls.
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Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.
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One of the reasons I love devils so much is not based in my faith, but because as a kid, I grew up loving heavy metal and horror movies, and the devil is such a huge presence in both.
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The Oculus Studio stuff is going to remain exclusive to the Oculus store and platform. That's not to say that you'll never be able to play it on other hardware, but it very much is exclusive to the Oculus platform.
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It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
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It's unfair to think that we can do what we do with the intensity that we do it and expect injuries to not happen.
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Kids have always play-fought, but I think my generation had a particularly privileged cultural fantasy surrounding military violence.
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Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the beginning of civilization or precivilization - like polytheistic times. It would be interesting to see what came before modern religion and culture - what circumstances created the environment or the need for it.
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An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
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Concepts like edX and online learning will transform education. This will completely change the world. I believe that people will move to online learning, both on campuses and worldwide. We have a real opportunity to be able to bring people around the world into our fold.
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Even my agents say, 'We don't know what this business is anymore.'
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I just believe in giving people their roses while they're living. That's my new thing - period.
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Dancing is the body made poetic.
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There are two kinds of people in the world: the kind who alphabetize their record collections, and the kind who don't.
