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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I think what's most fun is playing someone who's sort of selfish and in a lot of ways unlikeable, but there's this really big heart underneath it that you get little glimpses of.
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Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.
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The patrol system leads each boy to see that he has some individual responsibility for the good of his patrol.
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I don't think you should let your age stop anything you want to do. Don't put an age limit on your dreams.
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I understood that I had arrived there full of pride and realized that—in good faith, certainly, with affection—I had made that whole journey mainly to show her what she had lost and what I had won. But she had known from the moment I appeared, and now, risking tensions with her workmates, and fines, she was explaining to me that I had won nothing, that in the world there is nothing to win, that her life was full of varied and foolish adventures as much as mine, and that time simply slipped away without any meaning, and it was good just to see each other every so often to hear the mad sound of the brain of one echo in the mad sound of the brain of the other.
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The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.
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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.
