Sarah Vowell Quotes
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I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
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The most important thing that everybody can do, aside from building and keeping your network strong, is make good choices about your health.
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Cornish wrestling was very different from that in Devon - it was less brutal, as no kicking was allowed.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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I never thought of myself as a songwriter. I was just an artist writing songs, and they just happened to get placed.
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Nolan has the strangest affect on people. You know, I think there's something very sad and little boy about him, but at the same time the way he goes about everything is so awkward and obnoxious. He can never say the right thing, you know? And I think if he just didn't try so hard and calmed down, people might actually like him a bit more!
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'Srimanthudu' is a film very close to my heart. It's my first production, and I'm more than happy with its performance at the box office.
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Everything happens for a reason - I'm a believer of that for sure.
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I've been that celebrity on the red carpet, and I appreciate that something hasn't got to just look good from the front, from the back, it's got to look good at all angles.
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Be realistic: Plan for a miracle.
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I want to be sublimely happy.
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If you care for the quality of life in our American democracy, then you have to be for censorship.
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In fact, punk rock means exemplary manners to your fellow human being. Fuck being an asshole, what you pussies thought it was twenty years ago.
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Foursquare's adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook.
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I take yoga classes, do a mile run, and of course take part in some kind of water sport.
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As long as you're centering back to home base, and that's the strongest magnet in your life, that everything else is okay.
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Having recorded his first album, 'Tapestry,' in 1969, in Berkeley, California, during the student riots, McLean, a native New Yorker, became a kind of weather vane for what he called the 'generation lost in space.'
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Ghost stories always creep me out and weird me out. Those are always interesting to watch.
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It took me years and years of trial efforts to work out that there is absolutely no knitting triumph I can achieve that my husband will think is worth being woken up for.
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Infancy, n. The period of our lives when, according to Wordsworth, 'Heaven lies about us.' The world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
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I was a Green Day guy because the first DVD I bought was Green Day's 'Bullet In A Bible,' the live album. That really empowered me to be not just a drummer but a performer. It's a really crucial part of why I wanted to be in a band.
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When you work too much, you are boring - that is possible. But to have a happy life, if you can do several things in the correct way, that is perfect.
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My dad used to give me a lot of spankings. Anything I did wrong, he was on me. I was raised by a strict disciplinarian. He kind of laid down the law.
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Behind every bad law, a deep fear.
