Sarah Vowell Quotes
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Questions are like the knocks of beggarmen, and should not be minded.
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Never settle for second when first is available
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I play every game like it's my last game. All that matters is that you go out there and play every game as if it was your last.
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Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.
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Texas is reportedly going to give college students the right to carry guns on campus. So I guess that next semester, every college student in Texas is getting straight A's.
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It's impossible to always get across what I'm trying to say, but, if I just stay honest, then I'm not going to look back on any of these interviews and wonder what I was trying to do or be.
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She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns.
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My own perception is that there are two tiers of countries, one, the original ASEAN, and then the new members. The new members are in various stages of development.
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Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know, I've written a whole song in an hour.
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You've got to validate every day. There are those who just put a stamp on it and say, "This is gonna be a good day and I'm not gonna let anything else make it a bad day."
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You're thrown to the side and then you think, oh, there's more to life than what we really can just see in front of us. There's something else going on.
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Losing hope is not so bad. There's something worse: losing hope and hiding it from yourself.
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We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we feel this, such a sense of the vanity of our voluntary career comes over us, that all our morality appears but as a plaster hiding a sore it can never cure, and all our well-doing as the hollowest substitute for that well-being that our lives ought to be grounded in, but alas! are not.
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I am terrible with examples. I can never think of them when anybody asks for an example.
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What are you hiding? No one ever asks that.
