Sarah Vowell Quotes
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Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.
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My grandma passed away at 98 1/2 and I want to live to 100. I want to be able to do what I can do even at 100.
Gail Devers -
Literally, when I go to the vocal coach, I'm like, 'You are teaching me nothing.' You know?
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Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.
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In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.
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Sometimes you think you aren't a good mama; you always feel a bit guilty when you're a mom. You want to be everywhere.
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I want to improve my bunker, fairway and putting status because that's been my weakness over the last three years. If I can just focus on this, then everything else will come.
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Guarded with ships, and all our sea our own.
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It is a suggestive idea to track those worn feet backward through all the paths they have trodden ever since they were the tender and rosy little feet of a baby, and (cold as they now are) were kept warm in his mother's hand.
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The one thing that would utterly destroy the new capitalism is the serious practice of deferred gratification.
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'When God calls a man or woman, what they will eat, what they will use and everything they need for their journey will be provided abundantly by God.'
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If sentiment doesn't ultimately make fibbers of some people, their natural abominable memories almost certainly will.
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Spangling the wave with lights as vainAs pleasures in the vale of pain,That dazzle as they fade.
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If I had omitted setting down something of that which has appeared to me as clear, so that the knowledge would perish when I perish, as is inevitable, I should have considered that conduct as extremely cowardly with regard to you and everyone who is perplexed.
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Every time I open a child's head and see a brain, I marvel at the mystery: This is what makes every one of us who we are. This is what hold all our memories, all our thoughts, all our dreams. This is what makes us different from each other in millions of ways.
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I've actually had people come up to me and ask me to autograph their guns.
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From a distance he had the bland aspect of a philanthropist.
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The peasantry, having lifted itself up out of its medieval status, cannot politically generate it's own rage. - Speech in Paris, 1934
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I'm a great player; I'm one of the best defensive ends in the league, and I honestly think that.
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An increasing number of people are growing uncomfortable with the gulf between the world's rich and the poor. Ostentatiously splashing your money around simply draws attention to that disparity, and to your own position on the lucky higher ground. It suggests a callousness, an inhumanity, a let's-just-rub-their-noses-in-it arrogance.
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To capture sound is to isolate a moment, canonize it, enter it into the historical register.
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Creative action plays with the unknown. But as the child fears the dark... the adult child will be fearful too, faced with the dark world of the unknown mind, with vast concepts looking enormous just beyond the front yard.
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Even writers need relief from words.
