Sarah Vowell Quotes

We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left.

Sarah Vowell

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• I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.

  

  Harlan Ellison
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Stupid

• Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.

  

  Irene Peter
  • Thinking
  • Today
  • Confused

• In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • People
  • Boy
  • Living

• The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Long
  • Society
  • Political

• I am happy in Paris.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Happy
  • Paris

• It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Art

• The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Good
  • Leadership
  • Luck

• Members of royal families are born into a world of indulgence and entitlement, and the princelings who grow up that way may never have to develop any discipline.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Up
  • World
  • May

• No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Hand
  • Wise

• The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.

  

  Albert Schweitzer
  • War
  • Together
  • Lost

• At a young age I always had an entrepreneurial spirit. So I'm trying to develop things on my own, too, and there are a couple things that have absolutely nothing to do with the entertainment business that I'm trying to tackle. We'll just sort of see.

  

  Jennifer Carpenter
  • Trying
  • Business
  • Age

• It's really important to teach people how to get food, how to grow it, how to pick it, how to prepare it and what's safe to eat.

  

  Arthur Potts Dawson
  • People
  • Important
  • Food

• I am probably the oldest new artist Sony has ever signed.

  

  Bradley Walsh

• The establishment is a dirty, dangerous beast, and the BBC is a mouthpiece for that.

  

  Ken Stott
  • Dirty

• I don't have to try to be perfect at everything.

  

  Cindy Crawford
  • Perfect

• When I was a kid, my parents were always like, 'Money doesn't buy happiness.' I thought, 'You just didn't make enough money.' I had to go find it out for myself.

  

  Mike Posner
  • Money
  • Parents

• I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.

  

  David Rockefeller
  • Art
  • She
  • Mother

• The sea was at the bottom of my road, and I seemed to spend my childhood in it or on it, hearing, tasting, smelling it. Now, still, I need to be near water as often as possible.

  

  Berlie Doherty
  • Water
  • Road
  • Childhood

• I think one of the great primordial fears we have once we become conscious of our aloneness as children is the fear of losing our mother. We have that from the moment we realize we can lose her just in the supermarket. As a child, it was more terrifying than arithmetic.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Mother

• I think the American people should express their preferences and we'll accept their choice.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Choices

• Essential truth, the truth of the intellectualists, the truth with no one thinking it, is like the coat that fits tho no one has ever tried it on, like the music that no ear has listened to. It is less real, not more real, than the verified article; and to attribute a superior degree of glory to it seems little more than a piece of perverse abstraction-worship.

  

  William James
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Truth

• I think the money for the solutions for global poverty is on Wall Street. Wall Street allocates capital. And we need to get capital to the ideas that are successful, whether it's microfinance, whether it's through financial literacy programs, Wall Street can be the engine that makes capital get to the people who need it.

  

  Kabir Sehgal
  • People
  • Money
  • Poverty

• We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left.

  

  Sarah Vowell
  • Thinking
  • Mean
  • Flaws