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Sarah Vowell
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: December 27
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You know you've reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality.
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You know, it's always good to have a synonym just for variety.
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If I looked in the mirror someday and saw no dark circles under my eyes, I would probably look better. I just wouldn't look like me.
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History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.
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Behind every bad law, a deep fear.
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I talk about going to his [George W. Bush's] Inauguration and crying when he took the oath, 'cause I was so afraid he was going to wreck the economy and muck up the drinking water... the failure of my pessimistic imagination at that moment boggles my mind now.
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Buffy's high school was built on top of a vortex of evil, the Hellmouth. And whose wasn't?
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The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War-when I really think about them they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea.
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I get younger people who watch Conan or The Daily Show, but before that it was mostly people who knew me from public radio. Those people are kind of old.
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We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left.
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Even writers need relief from words.
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I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good.
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In these fast and fickle times, it’s nice to know that there are some things you can always count on: the enduring brilliance of the last page of The Great Gatsby the near-religious harmonies of the Beach Boys’ “California Girls” and the lifelong friendship of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.
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Being a nerd, which is to say going to far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know. For me, the spark that turns an acquaintance into a friend has usually been kindled by some shared enthusiasm like detective novels or Ulysses S. Grant.
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Why is America the last best hope of Earth? What if it's Liechtenstein? Or, worse, Canada?
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The only people who know about me are people who would know about me.
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After Hiram Bingham built the first church on Oahu the student recalls, When it was completed some of the natives said among themselves, 'That house of worship built by the haoles is a place in which they will pray us all to death. It is meant to kill us.
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Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge.
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My audience is going to die before I do.
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Jesus and Lincoln, Moses and Jefferson can seem so long gone, so unbelievable, so dead.
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