Sherman Alexie Quotes
Last September 16th, I was walking in downtown Seattle when this pick-up truck pulls up in front of me. Guy leans out the window and yells, "Go back to your own country," and I was laughing so hard because it wasn't so much a hate crime as a crime of irony.
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Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.
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I'm just glad my gold medal's at home, because I'd hate to try to win another.
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I really hate bureaucracy and the idea that I'm not a free person.
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I hate wasting people's time.
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For a Jewish guy, I've recorded a lot of Christmas albums.
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I. Hate. Excuses. Excuses are a disease.
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I have a great pack of female friends, but I also have a lot of guy friends. I believe that platonic relationship is entirely possible.
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I know now that I began writing in a country where the word 'woman' and the word 'poet' were almost magnetically opposed. One word was used to invoke collective nurture, the other to sketch out self-reflective individualism. Both states were necessary - that much the culture conceded - but they were oil and water and could not be mixed.
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When I went to Australia, I had this feeling, like, 'Wow, this is really a different country.' I think that feeling of genuine foreignness, that this is a very different culture, which is increasingly rare in our globalised world.
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You can take the guy out of the neighorhood but you can't take the neighborhood out of the guy.
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1900 was a bit of mixed bag, it seems to me, on the one hand, because this is the year when this country becomes the premiere producer of manufactured goods. Clearly, a lot of people were making a lot of money, but it's also a time that reflects the savaging of one of the deepest depressions.
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I grew up in a country where advertising doesn't exist.
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Amnesiac was written to make fun of senior citizens with alzheimers. I hate them and I wish they'd die.
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Live and allow others to live; hurt no one; life is dear to all living beings.
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Last September 16th, I was walking in downtown Seattle when this pick-up truck pulls up in front of me. Guy leans out the window and yells, "Go back to your own country," and I was laughing so hard because it wasn't so much a hate crime as a crime of irony.
