N. Scott Momaday Quotes
Although my grandmother lived out her long life in the shadow of Rainy Mountian, the immense landscape of the continental interior lay like memory in her blood
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Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.
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I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
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TV, film, and theater are considered art, and art is a reflection of life. What happens in life includes violence, unfortunately.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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Honesty is something you can't wear out.
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One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
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I'm ready for a different America.
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I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
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I will only say that many freedom fighters of India found their calling in the institutions of Britain. And many makers of modern India, including several of my distinguished predecessors, from Jawaharlal Nehru to Dr. Manmohan Singh, passed through their doors.
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Football was what I was good at, and it was what I loved.
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I'm not stuck in Strikeforce. I'm happy to be with them. It's where I started, and they've been great to me.
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My role now is as an artist and as a mogul to inspire and give others opportunities.
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The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable.
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If there is anything which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity of their own liberties and institutions.
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I had spent five years not earning a penny, getting rejected. Thank God I had a husband who was supportive and encouraging. But I still said to myself, 'If the Everleighs doesn't sell, I'm finished with writing forever.' I was going to get an office job.
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You will walk differently alone, dear, through a thicker atmosphere, forcing your way through the shadows of chairs, through the dripping smoke of the funnels. You will feel your own reflection sliding along the eyes of those who look at you. You are no longer insulated; but I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.
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Every act of kindness and consideration changes and enhances the course of life.
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Although my grandmother lived out her long life in the shadow of Rainy Mountian, the immense landscape of the continental interior lay like memory in her blood
