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Sarah Vowell Quotes

I was a big Nancy Drew reader. Nancy figures it out. Case closed Picture Quote #1

Robert Todd Lincoln, a. k. a. Jinxy McDeath Picture Quote #1

The true American patriot is by definition skeptical of the government Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound like we should be on the radio. We don’t sound professional; we sound like people you would know Picture Quote #1

I loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew talked about movies that way, but Siskel and Ebert took each movie as it came and talked about whether it was a success on its own terms Picture Quote #1

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I discovered that Robert Todd Lincoln was there for each of the first three assassinations. I wanted to write about the Lincoln Memorial, so when I found out he had attended its dedication, that helped focus it further Picture Quote #1

Buffy’s high school was built on top of a vortex of evil, the Hellmouth. And whose wasn’t? Picture Quote #1

You know you’ve reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality Picture Quote #1

Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge Picture Quote #1

Presidents and presidential assassins are like Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. Even though one city is all about sin and the other is all about salvation, they are identical, one-dimensional company towns built up by the sheer will of true believers Picture Quote #1

I hated the lost colony; in second grade, we were doing American History, and they said, We don’t know what happened to them. That drove me nuts. That lost colony drove me crazy Picture Quote #1

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Jesus and Lincoln, Moses and Jefferson can seem so long gone, so unbelievable, so dead Picture Quote #1

Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said that before he got shot Picture Quote #1

One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I no longer drink nearly as much as I used to but, still, my motto is Sine coffea nihil sum. Without coffee, I’m nothing Picture Quote #1

Winthrop and his shipmates and their children and their children’s children just wrote their own books and pretty much kept their noses in them up until the day God created the Red Sox Picture Quote #1

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Clemenza’s overriding responsibility is to his family. He takes a moment out of his routine madness to remember that he had promised his wife that he would bring dessert home. His instruction to his partner in crime is an entire moral manifesto in six little words: ‘Leave the gun. Take the cannoli Picture Quote #1

I talk about going to [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 Picture Quote #1

That’s what we Americans do when we find a place that’s really special. We go there and act exactly like ourselves. And we are a bunch of fun-loving dopes Picture Quote #1

But when I am around strangers, I turn into a conversational Mount St. Helens. I’m dormant, dormant, quiet, quiet, old-guy loners build log cabins on the slopes of my silence and then, boom, it’s 1980. Once I erupt, they’ll be wiping my verbal ashes off their windshields as far away as North Dakota Picture Quote #1

Owen is the most Hitchcockian preschooler I ever met. He’s three. He knows maybe ninety word and one of them is ‘crypt’? Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

I hated the lost colony; in second grade, we were doing American History, and they said, We don’t know what happened to them. That drove me nuts. That lost colony drove me crazy Picture Quote #1

When I think about my relationship with America, I feel like a battered wife: Yeah, he knocks me around a lot, but boy, he sure can dance Picture Quote #1

Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know Picture Quote #1

You know your country has a checkered past when you find yourself sitting around pondering the humanitarian upside of sticking with the British Empire Picture Quote #1

But I can no longer ready any faith’s Napoleonic saber rattling without picturing smoking rubble on cable news. 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 Picture Quote #1

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I was a big Nancy Drew reader. Nancy figures it out. Case closed (Sarah Vowell Quotes) Robert Todd Lincoln, a. k. a. Jinxy McDeath (Sarah Vowell Quotes) The true American patriot is by definition skeptical of the government (Sarah Vowell Quotes) 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 (Sarah Vowell Quotes) Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound like we should be on the radio. We don’t sound professional; we sound like people you would know (Sarah Vowell Quotes) I loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew talked about movies that way, but Siskel and Ebert took each movie as it came and talked about whether it was a success on its own terms (Sarah Vowell Quotes) I discovered that Robert Todd Lincoln was there for each of the first three assassinations. I wanted to write about the Lincoln Memorial, so when I found out he had attended its dedication, that helped focus it further (Sarah Vowell Quotes) Buffy’s high school was built on top of a vortex of evil, the Hellmouth. And whose wasn’t? (Sarah Vowell Quotes) You know you’ve reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality (Sarah Vowell Quotes) Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge (Sarah Vowell Quotes) Presidents and presidential assassins are like Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. Even though one city is all about sin and the other is all about salvation, they are identical, one-dimensional company towns built up by the sheer will of true believers (Sarah Vowell Quotes) I hated the lost colony; in second grade, we were doing American History, and they said, We don’t know what happened to them. That drove me nuts. That lost colony drove me crazy (Sarah Vowell Quotes) Jesus and Lincoln, Moses and Jefferson can seem so long gone, so unbelievable, so dead (Sarah Vowell Quotes) Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said that before he got shot (Sarah Vowell Quotes) One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes (Sarah Vowell Quotes) 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 (Sarah Vowell Quotes) I no longer drink nearly as much as I used to but, still, my motto is Sine coffea nihil sum. Without coffee, I’m nothing (Sarah Vowell Quotes) Winthrop and his shipmates and their children and their children’s children just wrote their own books and pretty much kept their noses in them up until the day God created the Red Sox (Sarah Vowell Quotes) Clemenza’s overriding responsibility is to his family. He takes a moment out of his routine madness to remember that he had promised his wife that he would bring dessert home. His instruction to his partner in crime is an entire moral manifesto in six little words: ‘Leave the gun. Take the cannoli (Sarah Vowell Quotes) I talk about going to [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 (Sarah Vowell Quotes) That’s what we Americans do when we find a place that’s really special. We go there and act exactly like ourselves. And we are a bunch of fun-loving dopes (Sarah Vowell Quotes) But when I am around strangers, I turn into a conversational Mount St. Helens. I’m dormant, dormant, quiet, quiet, old-guy loners build log cabins on the slopes of my silence and then, boom, it’s 1980. Once I erupt, they’ll be wiping my verbal ashes off their windshields as far away as North Dakota (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 Quotes) 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 (Sarah Vowell Quotes) 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 (Sarah Vowell Quotes) I hated the lost colony; in second grade, we were doing American History, and they said, We don’t know what happened to them. That drove me nuts. That lost colony drove me crazy. (Sarah Vowell Quotes) When I think about my relationship with America, I feel like a battered wife: Yeah, he knocks me around a lot, but boy, he sure can dance. (Sarah Vowell Quotes) Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know. (Sarah Vowell Quotes) You know your country has a checkered past when you find yourself sitting around pondering the humanitarian upside of sticking with the British Empire. (Sarah Vowell Quotes) But I can no longer ready any faith’s Napoleonic saber rattling without picturing smoking rubble on cable news. 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. (Sarah Vowell Quotes)

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