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.
Wallace Shawn
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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
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Literally, when I go to the vocal coach, I'm like, 'You are teaching me nothing.' You know?
Zara Larsson
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Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.
Vijay Sethupathi
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In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.
Tariq Ramadan
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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.
Carine Roitfeld
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Spangling the wave with lights as vainAs pleasures in the vale of pain,That dazzle as they fade.
Walter Scott
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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.
Maimonides
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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.
Ben Carson
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I've actually had people come up to me and ask me to autograph their guns.
Clint Eastwood
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From a distance he had the bland aspect of a philanthropist.
Agatha Christie
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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
Leon Trotsky
