Sherman Alexie Quotes
I've come to the point in my life where I encourage young Native Americans to become much more selfish about their personal needs and wants.
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We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.
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When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things.
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There's so much bigotry that needs to be overcome.
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I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.
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People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.
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Konosuke Matsushita was a visionary entrepreneur. He started working very young as a teenager, and he eventually created Panasonic to become a truly global company.
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I'm young enough not to be a rival to Mr. Basescu.
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The world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young.
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Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.
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I had heard about the nightcrawling world, and I'm very aware that there are tens of millions of young people around the world who are facing bleak employment prospects.
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It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'
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I have a lot of Twitter rules. I never swear on Twitter, and if anybody's inappropriate, I block them. I have young followers.
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I played the young Reese Witherspoon in 'Sweet Home Alabama' when I was 7, and the boy who played the young Josh Lucas was 10.
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If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets.
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My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor.
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He who gives himself entirely to his fellow-men appears to them useless and selfish; but he who gives himself partially to them is pronounced a benefactor and philanthropist.
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I pretty much started going more towards the singing route when I came out with the song 'Selfish.'
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Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.
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I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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In a democratic society, as Max Weber said, what is possible is only possible because some people have demanded the impossible. The abolitionists helped to create a public discourse in which men like Lincoln become possible. That doesn't mean Lincoln is an abolitionist. It means there is a public opinion out there which is being influenced by antislavery sentiment.
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Music has to breathe and sweat. You have to play it live.
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I've come to the point in my life where I encourage young Native Americans to become much more selfish about their personal needs and wants.
