Sherman Alexie Quotes
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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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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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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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Even though I don't have a lot of spare time, what I do have I'm very protective of, and so I make sure to have a normal life and to remember that, while it's important to keep in mind these conflicts are ongoing, it's also important to enjoy simple pleasures, too.
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'The Economist' is a biased organization.
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Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you're doomed; you're finished.
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My grandfather died when I was 12, but I remember the sorrow of my mother. Even now, she's an old lady, but when she speaks about her father, she looks young. A love like that is undefeated, you know?
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Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute.
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It takes power for the man of God in the pulpit to speak plainly about particular sins before the faces of those who are living in them; and still more power to do it with the rare tactfulness and tenderness of the Galilean preacher.
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You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live.
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To dream of an enterprise of demolition that would spare none of the traces of the original Big Bang.
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God, you’re sexy when you talk Psy.
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The dream he needed most was the dream that frightened him more.
