Sarah Vowell Quotes
When I think about my relationship with America, I feel like a battered wife: Yeah, he knocks me around a lot, but boy, he sure can dance.
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When I ran in Texas, I told the people of Texas, 'if you elect me, I will lead the fight against amnesty.'
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That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
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The reason I like Portland is the idea of going to a supermarket and knowing there's no way to be recognized. L.A. is so social.
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Yoga carves you into a different person - and that is satisfying physically.
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If I manage to leave my bedroom and get to the gym, that makes me feel good about myself! For me, the most difficult part is getting out of bed, but once I'm out, I really enjoy playing sports.
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I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.
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Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing. And Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.
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The beautiful thing about theater is every night is an opportunity to incorporate what you discovered the night before.
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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be. I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around, but he carried it off so well.
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I prefer recording drums in the analog format, but that does not mean I would only do it that way.
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We are very near the final climactic events that end with the Second Coming of Christ.
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My energy level has not changed.
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And he said that he wrote the Bond character based on the character of David Niven. That's how he saw Bond.
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If I'm going to portray one of my idols and someone I feel... so strongly about, it has to be done right, and it has to be done 120 percent.
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I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.
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The bad boys get all the best lines.
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There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow; but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.
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A person who is shallow aspires to depth; one who is ugly aspires to beauty; one who is narrow aspires to breadth; one who is poor aspires to wealth; one who is humble aspires to esteem. Whatever one lacks in oneself he must seek outside.
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'T is woman that seduces all mankind; By her we first were taught the wheedling arts.
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We celebrate the past to awaken the future.
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Nothing is sadder than love left unheard.
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We dont offer you any solutions necessarily but we definitely offer you a minute to escape.
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When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.
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When I think about my relationship with America, I feel like a battered wife: Yeah, he knocks me around a lot, but boy, he sure can dance.
