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Sarah Vowell
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: December 27
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Muskogee
Oklahoma
Sarah Jane Vowell
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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 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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I guess if I had to pick a spiritual figurehead to possess the deed to the entirety of Earth, I'd go with Buddha, but only because he wouldn't want it.
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The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought you could try.
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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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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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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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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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There are two kinds of people in the world: the kind who alphabetize their record collections, and the kind who don't.
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Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said that before he got shot.
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Most people don't like to talk about violent historical death.
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Oh my dear, idealists are the cruelest monsters of them all.
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When one of a culture's guiding credos is that all men are created equal, any person who, say, becomes an expert on, say, nuclear weapons or, say, ecology, i.e., anyone who distinguishes himself through mental excellence, is a nuisance.
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The only people who know about me are people who would know about me.
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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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I haven't decided if he deserved to eat bread made out of sticks or live in a rancid puddle, probably because I haven't made up my mind whether anyone deserves such treatment, though I suspect that the day a person gives up on the Geneva Conventions is the day a person gives up on the human race.
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Despite his consistent party-line voting record, some independents and Democrats still think of Senator McCain as the most palatable, independent-minded Republican. But this is the sort of empty compliment a friend of mine once compared to being called “the coolest Osmond.
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The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief. And by dangerous I don't mean thought-provoking. I mean: might get people killed.
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