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Sarah Vowell Quotes

I was a big Nancy Drew reader. Nancy figures it out. Case closed.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: December 27, 1969

Topics

Out Big Closed Case Drew Reader

I really enjoyed coaching.

Coaching Enjoyed Really

After a year of post-graduate research, I won an 1851 Exhibition scholarship to work at Oxford with Robert Robinson. Two such scholarships were awarded each year, and the other was won by Rita Harradence, also of Sydney and also an organic chemist.

Work Research Year Scholarship Two

If my mother hadn't been trying to be a writer, I don't know if I would have thought of it myself.

Mother Myself Thought Trying Know

I've been able to pay the bills. I've been able to pay off my student loans. I was a homeowner before anything happened in the larger public eye.

Sterling K. Brown

Eye Student Student Loans Pay Bills

I don't like to be the only person talking in a room.

Talking Person Room Only Like

Fighting wars is not so much about killing people as it is about finding things out. The more you know, the more likely you are to win a battle.

People Win Battle Fighting Finding

There are things we control - but things that are not in control, no point wasting time and energy into that.

Time Control Energy Wasting Time

I started working out with my father the summer I was 13, which was incredible for our relationship. Those were my summers: working out with my dad, hanging out with my brothers, riding my bike. Pretty simple.

Michael Strahan

Father Relationship Simple Bike Out

I was a professional and did my best to prepare for every fight, but after PRIDE Grand Prix, to be honest, I didn't have motivation to go on.

Best Fight Pride Motivation Go

In America, we understand that a nation is only living as long as it is striving.

America Long Striving Living Nation

My favorite record of all time is Tom Petty's 'Wildflowers.' I hold it as the standard - in terms of sonics, sequencing, and songs. It shows that making a complete record is important, rather than just making a single.

Chris Stapleton

Time Important Petty Single Hold

The Constitution that I interpret and apply is not living, but dead, or as I prefer to call it, enduring. It means, today, not what current society, much less the court, thinks it ought to mean, but what it meant when it was adopted.

Today Society Constitution Living

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