Sarah Vowell Quotes
Not that I want the current president killed. I will, for the record and for the FBI agent assigned to read this and make sure I mean no harm, clearly state that while I am obsessed with death, I am against it.
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I'm from the South, and there's a different understanding of how to chop. There's a syllable play. It's a delicate art. Your accent has a lot to do with it. If you're from a certain area, words don't roll of your tongue as slick.
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When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.
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Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
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I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.
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Social media buzz can lead to huge successes when people spread the word about something they love and want to share. But authors creating their own buzz? Making their own noise? It's hard to make a lot of noise on our own about our own work. Except, sadly, negative noise.
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I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.
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I can't make up my mind whether I want to dance like Josef Brown or dance with Josef Brown.
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I spent two years living in London - I'd have stayed for ever if I could have got a work visa. It was there I started collecting vinyl and fell in love with the sounds of the 1970s.
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I really wasn't into comic books growing up.
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Any active sportsman has to be very focused; you've got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various directions, you do not achieve the results. I need to know when to switch on and switch off: and the rest of the things happen around that. Cricket is in the foreground, the rest is in the background.
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I call myself, 'The Estee Lauder of the garden world.' I'm my own little conglomerate.
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We have an obligation to our men and women in uniform - and to future generations - to do something about the issue of climate change.
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If you love something, you have to stay really focused and can't let outside things distract you.
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I make hit records. I make hit records to motivate the people.
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We take comfort, however, that mystery is not a synonym for contradiction.
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If and when Turkey does become a member, it will be after years of structural reforms and with a long track record of sustained and stable growth,
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I am a vigilant monarchist. I want to see things evolve. The direction the monarchy seems to be moving in - towards a more mainland-European model - is one I would feel sympathetic about.
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Artie is as engrained in the 6O Minutes DNA as anyone. As our director, Artie, with his exquisite taste, created the look of the show, one we never abandoned in all our years on the air.
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The nature of how we are as human beings is that we're much more interested in being critical rather than praising something.
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The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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Any phrase that suggests play is this domain that's the opposite of work, or the thing that you do when you're done working, should trouble us. Because it means that play is always relegated to the exhaust of life. It's the thing that you do after you do the important stuff, it's what you do on your own time.
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My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.
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Not that I want the current president killed. I will, for the record and for the FBI agent assigned to read this and make sure I mean no harm, clearly state that while I am obsessed with death, I am against it.
