Sarah Vowell Quotes
Clemenza's overriding responsibility is to his family. He takes a moment out of his routine madness to remember that he had promised his wife that he would bring dessert home. His instruction to his partner in crime is an entire moral manifesto in six little words: 'Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
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In the marathon a crazy athlete can just keep pushing from the beginning, at a championship you don't need a time just to win the race.
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No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.
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I have my dad's shape. No booty.
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There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.
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You don't train a dog in a training hall, jerking his neck or even giving him food treats. You train him using life rewards.
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Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
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Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.
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If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
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Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.
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I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.
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I feel very much satisfied to play in Baltimore.
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All nuclear material in weapons programmes must be subject one day to binding international verification.
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You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.
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I think clearly the United States, as well as other western nations, should stand by their commitments to human rights and democracy and should try to influence other countries to move in that direction.
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May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that 'faith' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?
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I think sometimes I'm more fond of doing the research for the character because you learn so much. Sometimes shooting is really difficult because you wake up early and you're always hurrying. And sometimes I don't know what I'm doing. I'm here and there.
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Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the government, deny him all defence whatsoever against oppression.
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In the case of Orlando and me, we're just being ourselves. I think that's important. Regardless, we're going to have fun and we're going to be entertaining. We're very lucky to be doing what we're doing. I think it's definitely going to create a relaxed atmosphere.
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Men frequently think that the evils in the world are more numerous than the good things; many sayings and songs of the nations dwell on this idea. ...Not only common people make this mistake, but even many who think they are wise.
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I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.
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Yoghurt cuts sweetness and richness, tempers spice, and makes a dish sing.
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Clemenza's overriding responsibility is to his family. He takes a moment out of his routine madness to remember that he had promised his wife that he would bring dessert home. His instruction to his partner in crime is an entire moral manifesto in six little words: 'Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
