Sarah Vowell Quotes
Owen is the most Hitchcockian preschooler I ever met. He's three. He knows maybe ninety word and one of them is 'crypt'?Sarah Vowell
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Computer animation is one way to liberate people from their circumstantial gravity, and it is one way to give them mental freedom.
Cai Guo-Qiang -
In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
Larry Hogan -
Not all offers I get are exciting and inspiring. I would rather sit at home and not work than jump into mediocrity for the sake of just moving ahead. If it's a good script, I would sacrifice my personal time and grab it.
Rani Mukerji -
I am told that there have been over the years a number of experiments taking place in places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology that have been entirely based on concepts raised by Star Trek.
Patrick Stewart -
Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story.
Jackie Evancho -
Mom! It's the cops! I'm gonna get nicked, I'm gonna get nicked!
Jack Osbourne
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The sword was odd. The Arab Movement was one: Feisal another (his name means a flashing sword): then there is the excluded notion, Garden of Eden touch: and the division meaning, like the sword in the bed of mixed sleeping, from the Morte d'Arthur. I don't know which was in your mind, but they all came to me - and the sword also means clean-ness, and death.
T. E. Lawrence -
Die Kunst an und für sich selbst ist edel; deßhalb fürchtet sich der Künstler nicht vor dem Gemeinen. Ja indem er es aufnimmt, ist es schon geadelt, und so sehen wir die größten Künstler mit Kühnheit ihr Majestätsrecht ausüben.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
I really enjoy forgetting. When I first come to a place, I notice all the little details. I notice the way the sky looks. The color of white paper. The way people walk. Doorknobs. Everything. Then I get used to the place and I don't notice those things anymore. So only by forgetting can I see the place again as it really is.
David Byrne Talking Heads -
My four sons all knew I was a Jew, but they were allowed to be whatever they wanted to be. The only thing important to me was that they be good people who help other people, because all religion should try to make you a better person and a more caring person. Whenever religion does that for you, it's a good religion.
Kirk Douglas -
I was one of the first veejays to take the camera out on location, and that's what was unique about MTV at that time.
Pauly Shore -
No matter how heinous someone's behaviour, if you make them a comic character, you can't expect people to hate them.
Chris Morris
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In the past, when we've tried gene therapy, we haven't had tools that have allowed targeted gene correction.
Jennifer Doudna -
When I ran for governor of Minnesota, I only raised $300,000.
Jesse Ventura -
I agree that we must expand opportunities for retirement saving, but we must not undermine this worthy effort with a flawed privatization scheme that takes the 'security' out of Social Security.
Mary Landrieu -
A lot of the guys that I date and my friends are all in bands.
Audrina Patridge -
Our country was hit on 9/11, 2001. Everybody in the world knows that. It hasn't been easy to deal with a different kind of enemy, but that is what we have, a different kind of enemy.
Kay Bailey Hutchison -
Every single day of making a movie is going to bring new problems.
Marguerite Moreau
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The Christian must trust in a withdrawing God.
William Gurnall -
The problem was just a mean attitude that festers and has to be challenged.
Major Owens -
At the end of the day, if I can say that I had a career where I was able to play all different kinds of characters and I'm known as someone who is well-respected for my approach to the craft, that would be a beautiful life.
Adepero Oduye -
What manly eloquence could produce such an effect as woman's silence?
Jules Michelet -
Owen is the most Hitchcockian preschooler I ever met. He's three. He knows maybe ninety word and one of them is 'crypt'?
Sarah Vowell