Sherman Alexie Quotes

You want the good life? You live where white people live, you go to school where white people go to school, and you shop where white people shop.

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• Sometimes you read pilots and, understandably, they're doing such a frantic tap dance for approval. I get why - it's such an incredibly competitive market.

  

  Zach Woods
  • Why
  • Sometimes
  • Dance

• I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!

  

  Ed Harris
  • Family
  • History
  • Problems

• There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • People
  • Learning
  • Fight

• Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Time
  • Civilization
  • Taste

• What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles, teaches us far more about humans than it does about animals - and the lesson is not a flattering one.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • People
  • Animals
  • Marine

• What bothered me was playing one-dimensional parts in films which were really about, 'Boy Meets Girl,' 'Will Boy Get Girl?'

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Girl
  • Boy
  • Parts

• In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.

  

  Eddy Cue
  • Lost
  • Problem
  • Government

• I don't like the word 'urban' because I think it's a bit of a generalisation and they use it to class music, but I don't think it's a word that necessarily classes music.

  

  Taio Cruz
  • Music
  • Think
  • Like

• Once you commit to something, you've got to commit the whole way. Try and make the best of it.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Way
  • Best
  • Try

• Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Mistake
  • Debt
  • Both

• I don't like labels. I don't understand the need for them. When you define yourself a certain way, people have expectations.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • People
  • Yourself
  • Understand

• For some mysterious Darwinian reason, women feel compelled to straighten up bedrooms before and after sex. Try to make love in every other room of the house.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Women
  • House

• 'Nyxnissa?'She looked back at the queen. 'There are no happy endings, Nyxnissa.''I know,' Nyx said. 'Life keeps going.'

  

  Kameron Hurley
  • Life
  • She
  • Happy

• In my everyday life, I'm a jeans and button-up shirt kind of guy.

  

  James Wolk
  • Life
  • Up
  • Guy

• Yeah, I was born in Montreal and I go back to Vancouver and Toronto a lot, so I have a sense of being Canadian, and I was raised by two Canadians, and my wife is Canadian, so yeah, I feel it.

  

  Jason Reitman
  • Wife

• We began in indies, and maybe we'll make another smaller film again sometime.

  

  Joe Russo

• I always get forwarded these weird pictures of people getting Kenny Powers tattoos. That's probably the craziest thing I've ever seen: Somebody will ink my face on their body for eternity.

  

  Danny McBride
  • People
  • Weird

• Even the smallest dog can lift its leg on the tallest building.

  

  Jim Hightower
  • Dog

• Sometimes, we nerds of technology sort of don't think that the rules necessarily apply to us in the same way, but I think when you produce products that hundreds of millions of people, if not billions of people, are using, we have the same responsibilities as any other person representing the Fourth Estate.

  

  Dave McClure
  • People
  • Technology

• So many people ask me, 'Do you like 'Departed?' I say, '50/50.'

  

  Andrew Lau
  • People

• You have to be very fast-thinking, creative, and mobile. It is key to making a business move.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Thinking
  • Business
  • Creative

• Religion was quite a thing in our house - we were Baptists. Some Sundays I went to church three times. If there was a talk on missionary work in the afternoon, I could be there all bloody day. But religion took its first big knock after Dad died.

  

  Philip Kerr
  • Work
  • House
  • Dad

• You want the good life? You live where white people live, you go to school where white people go to school, and you shop where white people shop.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • People
  • School
  • Shops