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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To treat programming scientifically, it must be possible to specify the required properties of programs precisely. Formality is certainly not an end in itself. The importance of formal specifications must ultimately rest in their utility -in whether or not they are used to improve the quality of software or to reduce the cost of producing and maintaining software.
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Before 'Grease 2', I was called the next Richard Gere, then after 'Grease 2', nobody would touch me.
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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The act of voting by ordinary Iraqis in the face of extreme danger confirms President Bush's belief that people around the globe, when given a chance, will choose liberty and democracy over enslavement and tyranny.
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What does calling this medical care legislation "historic" mean? It means that previous administrations gave up the idea when it became clear that the voting public did not want government control of medical care. What is "historic" is that this will be the first administration to show that it doesn't care one bit what the public wants or doesn't want.
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Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship.
