Sherman Alexie Quotes

We all know the Indians were colonized by the Europeans, but every colonized Indian has been colonized by the Indian reaction to colonization.

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• Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Japanese
  • Companies
  • Lacking

• I'm one of the few DJs who uses turntables. I'm the only DJ that's scratching.

  

  Alain Macklovitch

• If individuals can be born again, why can't cities, made up of many individuals, be born again?

  

  C. Wagner
  • Up
  • Why
  • Individual

• The average person works at fifty percent or less of their potential. Your job is to unleash that extra fifty percent.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Job
  • Opportunity
  • Average

• I am designating a new Director of Recovery for Auto Communities and Workers to cut through red tape and ensure that the full resources of our federal government are leveraged to assist the workers, communities, and regions that rely on our auto industry.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Government
  • Red
  • Cutting

• I'm not going to let Donald Trump take away from our community, something that Fannie Lou Hamer shed blood to give us. Something that Ella Jo Baker braved conditions in the South and sweatshops in Harlem to give us.

  

  Van Jones
  • Community
  • Trump

• In my mind, I see a line. And over that line, I see green fields and lovely flowers and beautiful, white women with their arms stretched out to me over that line, but I can't seem to get there no how. I can't seem to get over that line.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Mind
  • Beautiful
  • Flower

• I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning.

  

  William Mapother
  • Morning
  • Opera
  • Symphony

• In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be.

  

  Alberto Moravia
  • Experience
  • Choices
  • No Problem

• Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see - Egoism, Arrogance, Conceit, Selfishness, Greed, Lust, Intolerance, Anger, Lying, Cheating, Gossiping and Slandering. If you can master and destroy them, then will be ready to fight the enemy you can see.

  

  Al-Ghazali
  • Enemies
  • Thirteen
  • Jihad

• Well, Led Zeppelin IV! That's it really. I'll tell you why the album had no title - because we were so fed up with the reactions to the third album, that people couldn't understand why that record wasn't a direct continuation of the second album. And then people said we were a hype and all, which was the furthest thing from what we were. So we just said, `let's put out an album with no title at all!' That way, either people like it or they don't... but we still got bad reviews!

  

  Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
  • Album
  • Reactions
  • Fed Up

• The reactions music evokes are not feelings, but they are the images, memories of feelings.

  

  Paul Hindemith
  • Music
  • Feelings
  • Reactions

• If you understand 'it' will come, then you'll understand 'it' will pass. No matter what happens, you can make it. Trust me, you can.

  

  Ace Antonio Hall
  • Understand
  • Come
  • Pass

• I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things.

  

  Washed Out
  • Interesting
  • Child
  • Internet

• We all know the Indians were colonized by the Europeans, but every colonized Indian has been colonized by the Indian reaction to colonization.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Reactions
  • Colonization