Sherman Alexie Quotes
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No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
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How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.
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I should have died in ambushes a hundred times.
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Bigotry should never be sanctioned, whether intentionally or unintentionally.
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One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
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The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.
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They should rule who are able to rule best.
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My name, Diana Ross, is my name and nobody should be able to use that for exploitative purposes but me.
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Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.
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Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?
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I think I should learn French and be a better cook - basic, really good life stuff.
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The world has been made by fools that men should live in it.
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One should always be a little improbable.
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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren't true. It's always better with the truth.
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Books are necessary to correct the vices of the polite; but those vices are ever changing, and the antidote should be changed accordingly should still be new.
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Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up and touch everything. If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you.
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For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.
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What I do Coco would have hated. The label has an image and it's up to me to update it. I do what she never did. I had to find my mark. I had to go from what Chanel was to what it should be, could be, what it had been to something else.
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I may be an old lion, but I can still bite someone's hand off if he puts it in my mouth.
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In Missouri, we built the steamships that plied the Mississippi. It was people of Missouri who believed that a human being could fly across the Atlantic Ocean alone. And it was Missourians who built the capsule in which an American first orbited the earth.
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When you create a fence, you keep people out, but you also limit your mobility.
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You shouldn't never regret something that made you smile.
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We Indians really should be better liars, considering how often we've been lied to.
