Sherman Alexie Quotes

Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor.

Sherman Alexie

• Poverty
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• Poor
• Lessons
• Perseverance

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• I've made a dozen films in the English language. But then, for love, for my family and friends, I returned to Europe... I annoyingly - looking back - turned down films like 007, 'For Your Eyes Only,' written specially for me.

  

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• People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids.

  Gail Devers
  • People
  • Kids
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• Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Life
  • Different
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• I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
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• I rarely cook traditional risotto, but I love other grains cooked similarly - barley, spelt or split wheat. I find they have more character than rice and absorb other flavours more wholeheartedly.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Love
  • Character
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• The talk shows in the States want celebrities, not authors. In France, it is different; writers are called upon to comment on everything. They have a very public role there.

  

  Edmund White
  • Different
  • Want
  • Talk

• With scientific advances, Congress must now make changes to reflect new therapeutic options.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • New
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  • Congress

• I've never written anything that I haven't wanted to write again. I want to, and still am, writing 'A Few Good Men' again. I didn't know what I was doing then, and I'm still trying to get it right. I would write 'The Social Network' again if they would let me, I'd write 'Moneyball' again. I would write 'The West Wing' again.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Good
  • Men
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• We will go on tour, that will be a boost for me. After that I can focus on LaToya. If I didn't have them, so many people would be coming at me right now and I wouldn't know what to do.

  

  LaToya London
  • People
  • Know
  • Focus

• On a blue island in a sky-wide water The wild orange trees continued to bloom and to bear, Long after the planter’s death.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Long
  • Death
  • Water

• I'm short, I'm Jewish and I'm a liberal.

  

  Paul Wellstone

• Sometimes when you're with the same old people, you get the same old thing.

  

  Dave Davies The Kinks
  • People

• It's always imperative to improve and to remain dynamic - or you'll become lunch, as opposed to serving it.

  

  Danny Meyer

• I've started to show the consistency in majors I had in regular tournaments back in 1998-2000 when I was contending nearly every week.

  

  Lee Westwood
  • Consistency

• I do not own a single security anywhere that doesn't pay a dividend, and I formed a mutual-fund company with that very simple philosophy.

  

  Kevin O'Leary
  • Single
  • Simple

• There's nothing worse than seeing your teammates battle, knowing you can't help.

  

  Nelson Cruz
  • Help

• A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

  

  Don Fraser
  • May
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• The dissemination of advanced implantable technology will likely be just as ruthlessly democratic as the ailments it is destined to treat. Meaning that, someday soon, we may have a new class of very smart, very fast people - yesterday's disabled and elderly.

  

  Daniel H. Wilson
  • People
  • May
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• We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices.

  

  Joan Didion
  • Moral
  • Choices
  • Suicide

• We have learned the lesson that the music industry didn't learn. Give people what they want, when they want it, in the form they want it in, at a reasonable price - and they'll more likely pay for it rather than steal it.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • People
  • Music
  • Giving

• A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Poverty

• We face a dilemma because although everybody is better off than they've ever been at any time in our history, we've also got the biggest gap between the rich and the poor that we've ever had, and we've potentially got a planet which is going to go bust any day.

  

  Stuart Rose
  • Poor
  • Faces
  • Planets

• Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Poverty
  • Teach
  • Poor