"Behind every bad law, a deep fear." — Sarah Vowell
"Behind every bad law, a deep fear."
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81 Quotes by Sarah Vowell
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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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Assassins and presidents invite the same basic question: Just who do you think you are?
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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 went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Bad men are full of repentance.
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It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's…
— Julian Assange
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Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen…
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I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles -…
— Richard Armitage
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
— Karen Armstrong
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If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'.
— Frank Abagnale
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People that go through what I went through and people going through divorce, it's really a difficulty process; it's heartbreaking…
— David Arquette
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If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?'…
— Arthur Ashe
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From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any…
— Isaac Asimov
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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end.…
— Chinua Achebe
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