#ow

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. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#any #background #college #come #european

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

#conan #daily #daily show #get #i

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

#actually #argued #came #each #ebert

In death, you get upgraded into a saint no matter how much people hated you in life. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#get #hated #how #into #life

Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table. ↗

— Diana Vreeland

#died #dinner #dinner table #fellow #food

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be. ↗

— Alice Walker

#make #nobody #out #powerful #them

Muslim organisations tend to have a low level of organisation. The communities in Europe are quite diverse. ↗