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.
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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If we turn our back on the people of this country who need to work for a living, we shouldn't be here, to be honest, because that has to be an essential part of what we do to protect the country, from the standpoint of defense, protect workers and make sure they have jobs.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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I am happy in Paris.
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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.
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The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
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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.
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No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had.
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The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.
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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.
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I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.
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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.
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I am probably the oldest new artist Sony has ever signed.
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The establishment is a dirty, dangerous beast, and the BBC is a mouthpiece for that.
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I don't have to try to be perfect at everything.
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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.
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But mad people never die. That's a well-known fact. They've nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.
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One of the ways we women often handicap ourselves is thinking that once we've made a decision or a commitment, we can't change.
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I think, however, that there isn't any solution to this problem of education other than to realize that the best teaching can be done only when there is a direct individual relationship between a student and a good teacher - a situation in which the student discusses the ideas, thinks about the things, and talks about the things. It's impossible to learn very much by simply sitting in a lecture, or even by simply doing problems that are assigned. But in our modern times we have so many students to teach that we have to try to find some substitute for the ideal.
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It is not a band. It is an idea.
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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.
