"Assassins and presidents invite the same basic question:……" — Sarah Vowell
"Assassins and presidents invite the same basic question: Just who do you think you are?"
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81 Quotes by Sarah Vowell
Sarah Vowell has 81 quotes on this site.
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Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound…
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Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best…
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I'm always disappointed when I see the word 'Puritan' tossed around as shorthand for a bunch of generic, boring, stupid,…
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There are two kinds of people in the world: the kind who alphabetize their record collections, and the kind who…
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There are people who look forward to spending their sunset years in the sunshine; it is my own retirement dream…
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Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you.
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I get younger people who watch Conan or The Daily Show, but before that it was mostly people who knew…
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The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where…
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In death, you get upgraded into a saint no matter how much people hated you in life.
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Presidents and presidential assassins are like Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. Even though one city is all about sin…
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After Hiram Bingham built the first church on Oahu the student recalls, "When it was completed some of the natives…
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I discovered that Robert Todd Lincoln was there for each of the first three assassinations. I wanted to write about…
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The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi…
— George W. Bush
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To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins. [Fr., Rendre…
— Denis Diderot
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Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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If the culprits are Muslim, they have twisted the teachings of Islam. Whoever performed, or is behind, the terrorist attacks…
— Muhammad Ali
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Whether we are describing a king, an assassin, a thief, an honest man, a prostitute, a nun, a young girl,…
— Guy de Maupassant
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The slanderer and the assassin differ only in the weapon they use; with the one it is the dagger, with…
— Tryon Edwards
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Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin.
— Albert Camus
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Take away the Holocaust and what do you have left? Without their precious Holocaust, what are the Jews? Just a…
— Harold Covington
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Presidents and presidential assassins are like Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. Even though one city is all about sin…
— Sarah Vowell
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Say I feel all sad and self-indulgent, then get stung by a wasp, my misery feels quite abstract and I…
— Russell Brand
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How shall the murdered man convince his assassin he will not haunt him.
— Malcolm Lowry
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You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray [the confessed assassin of Martin Luther King]. We…
— Rush Limbaugh
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