Sherman Alexie Quotes

I got in a fight with my girlfriend," I said. "I was just driving around, blowing off steam, you know?" Well, you should be more careful where you drive," the officer said. "You're making people nervous. You don't fit the profile of the neighborhood." I wanted to tell him that I didn't fit the profile of the country but I knew it would just get me into trouble.

Sherman Alexie

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• Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.

  

  W. Eugene Smith
  • Distance
  • Potential
  • Horizon

• Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Thought
  • Devil
  • Witch

• All my friends, they're all gone. I've outlived them all.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • Friends
  • Gone
  • Them

• I'm very open about the fact that it's nice when someone says you're pretty. Especially for someone like me.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Pretty
  • Nice
  • Fact

• Growing up as a dancer, the stage is really where I love to be performance wise.

  

  Jacob Artist
  • Growing
  • Wise
  • Stage

• I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Hate
  • Know
  • Me

• Let us hope that for many it does mean the end of trouble so far as earning a livelihood is concerned, that it means happy and comfortable home living honestly earned. But there are other troubles ahead for her, and plenty of hard work.

  

  Florenz Ziegfeld
  • Work
  • Home
  • Happy

• Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Women
  • Better
  • Discriminated

• My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Own

• I had played the Virgin Mary in 'Jesus of Nazareth,' and I had done 'Juliet' at the age of 15. People said, 'Where do you go from playing Juliet and the Virgin Mary?' And I said, 'Mother Teresa of Calcutta.'

  

  Olivia Hussey
  • People
  • Done
  • Mother

• The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Country
  • Home
  • Plants

• Saying you want to be a model when you grow up is akin to saying you want to win the Powerball when you grow up. It's awesome, and it's out of your control, and it's not a career path.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Up
  • Career
  • Control

• Having done something like The Thorn Birds gives you enormous longevity. You can keep picking and choosing the roles for a bit longer.

  

  Rachel Ward
  • Done
  • Birds
  • Longevity

• I was a good baseball player. I still play a couple of times a week as part of my daily workout. Just throwing the ball, running around, fielding ground balls, you know. It's better to me than being on a treadmill or some sort of Zumba class.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Good
  • Running
  • Player

• If you keep performing, and if you stay healthy, you keep playing.

  

  Joe Sakic

• Arsenal are a special club for many French supporters. I watched them a lot, especially during the 'Invincible' era when they had Thierry Henry, Patrick Vieira, Sylvain Wiltord, and Robert Pires.

  

  Dimitri Payet

• The more comfortable men are with dealing with their own vulnerability and their own ideas of masculinity and feeling emasculated, the healthier they are. It's a healthy thing to deal with.

  

  Ben Schnetzer
  • Men
  • Feeling
  • Vulnerability

• I have to feel that I'm going somewhere all the time. By definition, if you have this urge to go places, then you can't be 100 percent happy where you are. It's not like I enjoy being miserable for weeks on end. But I think it's good to be miserable for about one day every third week - that's ideal for me.

  

  Jo Nesbo
  • Time
  • Good
  • Happy

• I know some people who are like, 'I love fitness,' and I feel like if you have to say that, you're still in the romance stage. I'm in the stage where I've been married to it for 60 years, and I don't think I'll ever get a divorce.

  

  Matt McGorry
  • People
  • Divorce
  • Fitness

• People get really caught up in their own trips.

  

  Max Cannon
  • People
  • Up

• The essence of business to me is great people run great companies. Mediocre people don't do a very good job.

  

  Kenneth Langone
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• I always made up my own acts; built them out of my knowledge and observation of real life. I'd had wonderful opportunities to study people; and every time I went out on the stage I tried to show the audience some bit of true human nature.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Don’t grow only for yourself. If you have some worthwhile information, share it. By reaching others, you will reach yourself.

  

  Noah Weinberg
  • Information
  • Grow
  • Reaching

• I got in a fight with my girlfriend," I said. "I was just driving around, blowing off steam, you know?" Well, you should be more careful where you drive," the officer said. "You're making people nervous. You don't fit the profile of the neighborhood." I wanted to tell him that I didn't fit the profile of the country but I knew it would just get me into trouble.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • People
  • Country
  • Fighting