Sherman Alexie Quotes

It's a weird thing. Reservations were meant to be prisons, you know? Indians were supposed to move onto reservations and die. We were supposed to disappear. But somehow or another, Indians have forgotten the reservations were meant to be death camps.

Sherman Alexie

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  Jack Kevorkian
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  • Stay
  • Maybe

• When I was in New York, the whole vibe was really just not matching with me. I was kind of super depressed in New York. It just had this vibe of 'Get out,' you know? I would try to get out, and we'd look back and just see the city and feel like, 'Oh, I have to go back to prison again.'

  

  Gallant
  • City
  • New York
  • Prison

• Send me one hundred francs on our future deals, otherwise I will disappear in a cataclysm.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Future
  • Disappear
  • Cataclysm

• I was in prison with pretty much the who's who of the jihadist and Islamist scene of Egypt at the time, and Egypt was the cradle of Islamism for the world - it's where it began and where jihadism began as well.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Time
  • World
  • Pretty

• Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Books
  • Forgotten
  • Remembered

• I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgard
  • Believe
  • Try
  • Disappear

• Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I'm dead, buried and forgotten. They're going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Dead
  • Forgotten
  • Audiences

• I don't often do a lot of that kind of research, but when it's something specific like 'Oz' - which I fortunately did not have a lot of experience with - I will. I read 'The Hot House,' about being on the inside at Leavenworth prison.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Experience
  • House
  • Research

• The federal prison population increased by almost 800 percent between 1980 and 2013, often at a far faster rate than the Bureau of Prisons could accommodate in their own facilities.

  

  Sally Yates
  • Prison
  • Percent
  • Facilities

• If a Labour movement, on a bourgeois basis, has hitherto existed in the country where the new movement is awakening it will certainly not disappear all at once.

  

  Karl Radek
  • Country
  • Movement
  • Disappear

• For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Feel
  • Forgotten
  • Bear

• I was nine. I saw Orson Welles in 'Julius Caesar.' It was involving, emotional, imaginative. I've never forgotten it.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Never
  • Emotional
  • Forgotten

• It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • History
  • Man
  • Prison

• Tony Judt's remarkable 'The Memory Chalet' was written from the prison of mute immobility.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • Memory
  • Prison
  • Remarkable

• One out of 100 citizens of the U.S. is going to prison, and it's not that the system is making criminals, it's that it's making criminals better criminals. We're breeding them like rats and it has to change.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Change
  • Better
  • Prison

• Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

  

  Beck
  • Men
  • Stars
  • Prison

• The State of Israel was not established so that the anti-Semites will disappear but, rather, so we can tell them to get lost.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Lost
  • Israel
  • Disappear

• People in general have a preconceived idea of what prison is, from seeing documentaries or whatever.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • People
  • Prison
  • Seeing

• I'm fairly certain when I die that the obituary will say, 'Author of 'Angels in America' dies.' Unless I'm completely forgotten, and then it won't say anything at all.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • America
  • Die
  • Author

• People don't hijack planes anymore because that old system of hijacking in order to barter for a prison release or get to a different country no longer works, exactly, because 9/11 recoded the hostage's interpretation of a hijack. If a hijacker isn't trying to use the plane as a missile, then he is in danger of being killed by the hostages. There is no minor terror threat anymore. No mid-level terrorism.

  

  Heidi Julavits
  • People
  • Prison
  • Hijack

• I'm not a braggart, but when I was a little girl people used to come from all over Hollywood to hear me sing.

  

  Etta James
  • Hollywood
  • Sing
  • Little Girl

• It's very easy to make a viral video, but longevity and consistency, that's hard.

  

  Michelle Phan
  • Make
  • Consistency
  • Longevity

• It's a weird thing. Reservations were meant to be prisons, you know? Indians were supposed to move onto reservations and die. We were supposed to disappear. But somehow or another, Indians have forgotten the reservations were meant to be death camps.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Prison
  • Forgotten
  • Disappear