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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Very few people chose war. They chose selfishness and the result was war. Each of us, individually and nationally, must choose: total love or total war.
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I've learned that it's way harder to be a baby. Everything is a struggle for her. For instance, I haven't thrown up since the '90s and she's thrown up twice since we started this interview. Motherhood is cake compared to what it's like to be a baby.
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Whether I'm speaking to conservative or liberal audiences, I don't find that people are close-minded about the things I say. I'm still optimistic that we can bridge a divide between these various bubbles. But I do think that it requires a little bit of effort.
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To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.
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Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship.
