I loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew … - Sarah Vowell

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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Sarah Vowell

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.

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I talk about going to his [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.

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

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I spent a lot of time with some native Hawaiians who protest being part of the United States and literally carry protest signs saying "We are not Americans. " And they have no real warmth for being the 50th state.

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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.

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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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