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 think a broader audience is really amazing. If there's no need for curse words or darkness, why go there? Why not make it PG?
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A way of looking at you that told you she was listening, that she understood all you were saying, and all you weren't.
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It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.
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If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air.
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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.
