Assassins and presidents invite the same basic question: Just who do you think you are?
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History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.
Sarah Vowell in Assassination Vacation
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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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One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes.
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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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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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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 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.
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The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War-when I really think about them they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea.
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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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