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

• 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

• 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

• In Boston, I developed my eye from the drawing. In Paris, I was fascinated by what my eye saw in the way that Paris is built, its 'measure.'

  

  Ellsworth Kelly
  • Drawing
  • Paris

• I never thought I'd play soccer past high school, so to go from that team to actually being most-capped and three World Cups is pretty special.

  

  Cobi Jones
  • World
  • School
  • High

• I love the luxury of the camera. The camera does so much for you. I like the secrets a camera can tell.

  

  Annette Bening

• Now, the causes being four, it is the business of the student of nature to know about them all, and if he refers his problems back to all of them, he will assign the "why" in the way proper to his science-the matter, the form, the mover, that for the sake of which.

  

  Aristotle
  • Nature
  • Know
  • Problems

• There was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck... I was having a hard time a couple of years ago... I'm a good driver, I just had bad luck.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Time
  • Good
  • Bad

• My thinking is lot more different with many actresses in the industry. I don't understand why people in showbiz put their profession of acting in the back seat after marriage.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • People
  • Different
  • Thinking

• 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
  • Individuality