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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Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.
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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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What would ultimately de-escalate the challenges of society would be for people to get educated, especially for more women to be educated because when more women are educated, they invest much more of their time and income in ensuring that the next generation would perform even more than they have done.
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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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If we lived in a time where people couldn't watch 'Lost' on Hulu or record it on their DVR, we wouldn't necessarily have succeeded. We need people to be able to catch up. Now you choose when you watch TV. We wouldn't have survived in the old days because people would have missed episodes.
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It doesn't get any more underground, conscious or indie than Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, but because they got a couple of really big pop hits, actually some of the biggest pop hits that hip-hop has ever seen, people are missing that part of their story. People are not counting that blessing.
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Even if you can't sing well, sing. Sing to yourself. Sing in the privacy of your home. But sing.
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Someone asked me what home was and all I could think of were the stars on the tip of your tongue, the flowers sprouting from your mouth, the roots entwined in the gaps between your fingers, the ocean echoing inside of your ribcage.
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'Our conversations have not been such that I am anxious to continue them in private.'
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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.
