Sarah Vowell Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Sarah Vowell Quotes. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Sarah Vowell Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.

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I discovered that Robert Todd Lincoln was there for eac

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.

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Jesus and Lincoln, Moses and Jefferson can seem so long gone, so unbelievable, so dead.

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The one time I was an actor, it happened to be in a globally dominant juggernaut. That was lucky.

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Assassins and presidents invite the same basic question: Just who do you think you are?

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My audience is going to die before I do.

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Relics are treasured as something close to the divine.

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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.

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We go in to liberate Cuba, but Cuba still isn’t free; we don’t really think through what we’ll do after the initial treaty is signed, but we’re still occupying. There’s chaos and torture and finally an outcry.

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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.

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History is full of really good stories. That’s the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.

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I seem to have no problem revealing my crush on the man who murdered Lincoln.

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I didn’t come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren’t without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good.

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

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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.

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