Sarah Vowell Quotes
The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War-when I really think about them they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea.
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I still study dance, and it's definitely something I want to incorporate in the future. It's always been my first love.
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I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.
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I like all music. The only music I don't like is bad music.
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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 had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.
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If you break up with a girlfriend or a boyfriend, you're in this vulnerable state where you're still kind of half in the relationship with them, but you're single, and it takes a while to feel solid in yourself again.
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured.
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One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a take on everything they observe.
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Like a precious family heirloom, freedom is not just ours to enjoy, but to treasure, protect, and pass on to future generations.
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The United States has done more for the war crimes tribunal than any other country in the world. We're turning over all the information we have, including intelligence information.
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The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet.
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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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She was leaving the world as woman who had loved and been loved back. She was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. A mother. A person of consequence at last. No. It was not so bad, Mariam thought, that she should die this way. Not so bad.
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I have faith in the universe, for it is rational. Law underlies each happening. And I have faith in my purpose here on earth. I have faith in my intuition, the language of my conscience, but I have no faith in speculation about Heaven and Hell. I'm concerned with this time-here and now.
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I get to focus on being a musician sometimes, and I get to focus on being a vocalist sometimes.
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I've met so many remarkable people so far, coming up through stand-up all these years, who just aren't alive anymore. Because they are dead. Some really great people who helped change my life and career, people like Richard Pryor, Sam Kinison, Rodney Dangerfield, Johnny Carson.
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By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.
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It's always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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Ray and I do not draw salaries. Any profits will be re-invested into marketing the music we believe in.
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Pushing myself against my own will really, because some of this stuff is hard. I don't consider myself to be a great guitar player, so pushing myself as a guitar player or pushing myself as a singer, as a performer, and just riding that fine line between being so hard on yourself that it's counter-productive and being so hard on yourself that nothing is ever good enough is what drives me.
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The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War-when I really think about them they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea.
