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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.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Thought You Try Him Out Point

With all the goodwill and local initiative in the world, we are not about to rewild anything until we change our way of thinking about our place in the creaturely world.

Change World Thinking Place Way Our

Failure to pass TPP sends a big signal. The United States is backing off, backing away. That will create a huge void here.

Failure Create Will Big Here Off

I was raised in an evangelical Methodist church. Evangelical meant that though you had been baptized and made a member of the church on Sunday morning, you still had to be 'saved' on Sunday night. I wanted to be saved, but I did not think you should fake it.

Stanley Hauerwas

Morning Night Think Fake Church You

There are things in low comedy that make people uncomfortable, and there are things in high comedy that make people bored.

People Comedy Uncomfortable High Low

In the Army, I learned how to use and respect my rifle.

Respect Army Rifle Use How Learned

People in England talk about stupid Hollywood idiots, but the industry attracts some of the cleverest people in the world.

People Stupid World Hollywood Talk

I believe that the real difference in the American church is not between conservatives and liberals, fundamentalists and charismatics, nor between Republicans and Democrats. The real difference is between the aware and the unaware.

Brennan Manning

Believe Church American I Believe

Over time, I've been more recognized.

Time More Over Been Recognized

I play bass. I don't have to go out there and screech.

Play Go Out Bass

When I was really little I would sit in the back of my dad's car when he'd be playing old-school music. He'd turn down the music and turn around and I'd be singing and know all of the words but I didn't even know how to talk. From then on I've always wanted to be a singer.

Car Music Words Singing Back Down

It's great to engage with the mainstream media to get messages out, but the most empowering tool is to create records of our lives, and our own images, which are not filtered through judgements, biases, or misunderstandings.

Great Media Create Engage Out Own

I wasn't trying to be an outlaw writer. I never heard of that term; somebody else made it up. But we were all outside the law: Kerouac, Miller, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Kesey; I didn't have a gauge as to who was the worst outlaw. I just recognized allies: my people.

Hunter S. Thompson

People Law Trying Worst Never Up

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