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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Following the well-lit path, offers little in the way of magic.
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I'm terrified about psychic people who have their little shops. I always walk across the street and go somewhere else. Imagine if one of them came out with their face all pale and said, 'Hurry up and enjoy yourself.' No one wants to know that.
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It`s nice to get president candidates` attention to infrastructure need which is really a ticking time bomb in America. But as important as the dollar amounts are, we need to know that this money is gonna go directly to cities. So we`re gonna be able to put it to use. In previous administrations and in previous efforts on infrastructure, the money has gone through states and it never seems to find its way to the nation`s cities.
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The dead hand of research lies heavy on too many novels.
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Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship.
