Sarah Vowell Quotes
Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship.
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I don't really measure success by anything other than if I am happy. That is success to me. Am I happy waking up every morning? And despite the challenges of running my own business, do I look forward to going to work? Absolutely.
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My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.
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I am not an American; I am the American.
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Just to be fighting for the belt, I was already happy. No pressure at all.
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For me as an actor, daring is to tell the truth - to be yourself, no matter how the world interacts with that.
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Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.
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Everybody has their struggles.
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Being mean just for being mean's sake isn't funny.
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I just look at all the fruit and all the people's lives that are being changed and are being touched. And that's what we really focus on because we hear - every day we get mail, we visit with people, and their lives are being changed.
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There is no one true church.
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If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.
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Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
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It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.
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Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we're gonna hang separately.
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One of my early childhood memories was my grandmother always having a bowl of Nestle chocolate bars at her house. My sister and I would argue over who could eat the chocolate bars. Looking back, I don't know why we just didn't share. We could have split them.
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Some may think fashion is frivolous, but the way I see it, when you dress well, you add beauty to the world. And there's nothing wrong with that, right?
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I was traveling a lot as a young actor, and while in a new city, I'd want to see the place, so I would just put on my trainers and go for a jog. And the more I did that, the more I found I was traveling longer and longer distances. I just fell into it.
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I love going to the cinema and thinking you're seeing something, and you end up on a whole other planet, and you can't believe it.
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Worship from the heart in times of adversity implies an attitude of humble acceptance on our part of God's right to do as He pleases in our lives.
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My art is grounded in the belief of one universal energy which runs through everything: from insect to man, from man to spectre, from spectre to plant from plant to galaxy. My works are the irrigation veins of this universal fluid. Through them ascend the ancestral sap, the original beliefs, the primordial accumulations, the unconscious thoughts that animate the world
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Voting in presidential and congressional elections is a national right - and the national government should protect it.
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I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so most especially the older people have to get accustomed to it.
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There is no liberty without dependency. That is why we should celebrate tax day.
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Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship.
