Sherman Alexie Quotes
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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I know I'm good enough. I don't need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don't.
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On June 23, 1864, Ambrose Bierce was in command of a skirmish line of Union soldiers at Kennesaw Mountain in northern Georgia. He'd been a soldier for three years and, in that time, had been commended by his superiors for his efficiency and bravery during battle.
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I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.
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Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.
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We are building a company, Gemini, and the ETF, which is another company. I don't know if we're experts, but the goal is not to be an expert but to change the world. Does Richard Branson understand all the physics behind his space craft? I'm not sure.
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The beauty of the Democratic Party is in the mix.
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What ObamaCare did was take some of the things we did for the poor and expanded the government to basically the whole marketplace.
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My private life stays private.
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If you chomp down too hard on my work, you're going to break your teeth.
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I think about the personal accomplishment, but there's more of a sense of the grand achievement by all the people who could put this man on the moon.
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Eat it, lick it, snort it, fuck it!
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For me, I look at a pilot and go, 'I see the landscape. I see the characters. I see the direction and the potential of the story.' And I also go, 'That didn't work. I could change that. Maybe that works. I don't know. We'll see.' For me, I look at it, as an actor, as what can I improve upon?
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I love England. It's no coincidence it's the first place I moved to for a more cosmopolitan life, which is the only thing Iceland lacks.
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Some people are way less creative than you wish they were.
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When you are in the big competition for the first time, you grow, and then you lose something when you go back into your own competition.
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I think that when people look at me, and they look at my height and my voice and my coloring, they automatically think, 'Tough.'
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I'm a pretty funny guy, and I would love to do a comedy with a bunch of funny guys - movie-star guys, where they could help me through it.
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While we are guarding the country, we must accept being the guardian of the finest ethics. The country needs it and we must do it.
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We are where we are, however we got here. What matters is where we go next.
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I am closer and closer to reaching my childhood dream. This is really exciting! I will continue to work hard, to focus on each tournament I play.
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Once I turned 13, I was the guy magnet.
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The dream he needed most was the dream that frightened him more.
