Sherman Alexie Quotes
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We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.
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I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.
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It is my hope that I will be able to work with legislative leaders on both sides of the aisle and Gov. Hickenlooper to find a solution to fix our ailing pension system.
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Fred Segal was founded - by none other than Fred Segal - as a tiny jeans retailer in 1968. In the 1970s Segal, began selling space to employees, starting with his nephew Ron Herman.
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Contrary to what many Westerners believe, Islam has a rich tradition of secular painting in spite of its ban on images. It is only in religious rituals that the use of pictorial representation is totally prohibited.
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I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.
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The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
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Music changes so fast, and we're in a singles market.
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It's hard to be serious in life.
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Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?
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My passion for strengthening the community and making peoples' lives better is stronger now than when I first got into politics.
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When I'm not working, I like to play golf.
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You have to be really careful with what you put out on social media and who you're talking to online.
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'You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense, I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist.' - Pat Robertson, The 700 Club, January 14, 1991
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When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter, And when he cried the little children died in the streets.
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One of the stumbling blocks for a lot of people is tracking expenses for three months.
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My mother was a big influence. She kept pushing me because I was very shy and inhibited. And schoolwork was very difficult for me because I couldn't concentrate. I was failing almost every subject. To this day, I'm not too good at reading a book. But I was the president of my high school comedy group, and they treated me like a king.
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A lot of people think Christianity is about always being perfect. It's actually the opposite of that. It's realizing that we're all humans, and that's why God sent his Son to this earth - to save people.
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I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can be divorced and flourish. When we believed that happiness was only smiling and good mood, that wasn't very good for people like me, people in the lower half of positive affectivity.
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Unmarried couples should get married - that's an excellent tax avoidance measure, if a bit drastic.
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Books and beer are the best and worst defense.
