Sarah Vowell Quotes
That's what I like to call him, "the current president." I find it difficult to say or type his name, George W. Bush. I like to call him "the current president" because it's a hopeful phrase, implying that his administration is only temporary.Sarah Vowell
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I moved to New Zealand from Winnipeg when I was almost five. I hated it. It was to a city in the south of New Zealand called Invercargill and there was constant rain. There was a depressing sensation in the air.
Daniel Gillies -
Sometimes a time dictates what a film will be. Sometimes a film dictates what the time will be.
Omar Dorsey -
The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.
T. E. Lawrence -
Bill Clinton left office with a more than 60% approval rating.
Nancy Gibbs -
It's an honour and a thrill and a privilege just to play in the NHL.
Wayne Gretzky -
I played point guard my whole life.
Zach LaVine
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The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
T. S. Eliot -
It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.
Orison Swett Marden -
How many times do I have to repeat this: my childhood was fantastic.
Vanessa Paradis -
Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Juicero is the first company to make cold-pressed juice something that people can make themselves at home. The challenges to design and engineer a press that can deliver 8,000 pounds of force are tremendous.
Yves Behar -
I don't make political work. I don't make work that criticises the state. I make as human work as I can.
Gary Hume
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I have always believed that technology should do the hard work - discovery, organization, communication - so users can do what makes them happiest: living and loving, not messing with annoying computers! That means making our products work together seamlessly.
Larry Page -
If most people were to take a moment to picture in their minds the average, not-for-profit, save-the-world girl, they... well, they probably wouldn't, because who wants to think about hemp, hairy legs, and Birkenstocks? But I'd rather eat a pair of Birkenstocks than put them on my feet, and I love, love, love my Christian Louboutins.
Nancy Lublin -
To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing.
Edith Piaf -
Life's too short when you find yourself sitting in a car for four hours every day trying to get from East L.A. to West L.A. to Hollywood and then back to East L.A.
Garrett Hedlund -
We want to be true to ourselves, and honest to the fans and to ourselves.
Natalie Maines -
You had my heart inside of your hand but you played it to the beat.
Adele
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When it is over, if it is over, this war will have horrible consequences. Instead of having one Bin Laden, we will have 100 Bin Ladens.
Judy Reyes -
I remain your servant and I will do as you ask of me.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi -
Principle says it's not who put forth an idea. It's not the position of the person who put forth an idea; it's not the longevity of the person or the party of the person. That's not what it is at all. In a power system, that's the way it works. But in a principle system, it's what it says.
Dan Webster -
That's what I like to call him, "the current president." I find it difficult to say or type his name, George W. Bush. I like to call him "the current president" because it's a hopeful phrase, implying that his administration is only temporary.
Sarah Vowell