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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I will do my best to dodge tonight's depression Hide in sleep Damage myself in dreams Wake up older, slightly more used.
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This society believed it was looking towards a new future, yet we consistently find ourselves being dragged backwards.
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If you took every single penny that Warren Buffett has, it'd pay for 4-1/2 days of the US government. This tax-the-rich won't work. The problem here is the government is way bigger than even the capacity of the rich to sustain it. The Buffett Rule would raise $3.2 billion a year, and take 514 years just to pay off Obama's 2011 budget deficit.
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Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship.
