N. Scott Momaday Quotes
The first word gives origin to the second, the first and second to the third, and the third to the fourth, and so on. You cannot begin with the second word.
Quotes to Explore
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I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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I hadn't thought that women were particularly dangerous golfers. Could that be the reason that the Augusta National Golf club refuses to take down its 'No Women Allowed' sign?
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Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
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By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop.
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Whether it's pool or Ping Pong, I can't stand to have my kids beat me. Especially Ping Pong! And when they beat me, they just needle the devil out of me. That's fine. I'd rather have that than let them win a shallow victory.
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The Mavericks and I have mutually agreed that it's in the best interest of both parties for me to step away from the team.
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There are tons of examples of U.K. and European mistakes. A classic one is pensions. That's obviously not an America-specific thing. The British and European economies are suffering under the weight of what is to come. The next great Ponzi scheme after Madoff is probably pensions.
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I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five.
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You seen my shows; I bring the 'hood out.
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My wardrobe consists of antique clothes, many of my designs, plus shoes and shirts from Brooks Brothers and Paul Stuart.
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Yes, we get death threats every week... from the Muslims.
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For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.
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I love the film route and I'm gong to try my hardest to stay on it.
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Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.
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Unfortunately we just toured the East and West coasts so we didn't run into any rednecks.
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The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.
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People think I'm unusual but it's just that we haven't had anyone like this since the Seventies.
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I've found over the years that for some reason, people either are big fans and have to use me, or they don't quite understand what I'm doing.
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If you read the Senate rules, there are provisions where the Senate parliamentarian can be overridden.
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Only the dead are truly smart, truly cool. Nothing touches them. While I live, however, I side with bumbling suffering crooked life, with anger rather than boredom, with sweet lust, hunger & carelessness...against the icy avant-guard & its fashionable premonitions of the sepulcher.
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I exempt you of being present in my idea of you.
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I don't think I'm unusual in that, in my 20s, like many people, I felt invincible.
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The first word gives origin to the second, the first and second to the third, and the third to the fourth, and so on. You cannot begin with the second word.
