Sherman Alexie Quotes

I got hundreds of emails insulting me, accusing me of being some caveman. I am by no means a Luddite. I have two iPods. I have a cell phone. I have cable TV, HDTV!

Sherman Alexie

• Phones
• Insulting
• Accusing

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• Sauce is certainly ancestral to French cooking. The technique is very tricky, but it's also very fundamental.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Cooking
  • Sauce
  • Tricky

• My wife is Danish and we go to Denmark a couple of times a year.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Wife
  • Couple
  • Year

• Accept complete responsibility both for understanding and for being understood.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Responsibility
  • Understanding
  • Accepting

• It's a sort of patronizing idea that literature for children has to feature role models of exemplary behavior. I think not only is that bogus, but it leads to really boring books.

  

  Mac Barnett
  • Children
  • Literature

• Decide today to design and build the ideal relationship in your life. It's up to you.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Up
  • Today

• Where there is no love there is no understanding.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Understanding
  • No Love

• I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Broken
  • Shape
  • I Hope

• To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect

  

  Jane Austen
  • Hope
  • Wish

• It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Impression
  • False
  • Vulgar

• The more I fly, the more I'm convinced that the true wonder of modern aviation is the transformation of tasteless particles into something known as airplane food.

  

  Bob Blumer
  • Food
  • Wonder
  • Convinced

• There's a sense that there is a culture of cronyism and corruption and incompetence

  

  Norman Ornstein
  • Culture
  • Corruption
  • Incompetence

• Reluctantly he realized some forces could not be conquered and some vengeances can never be sated.

  

  Bill Willingham
  • Forces
  • Conquered
  • Vengeances

• What interests us about the past is at least partly a function of what bothers us or makes us curious in the present.

  

  Adam Garfinkle
  • Past
  • Present
  • Interests

• I had a traditional interview based on a phone call from an agent. He says there's a show and they would like to see you and its called Dallas. With very little knowledge I go over to this meeting at Warner Brothers.

  

  Steve Kanaly
  • Brother
  • Meetings

• If you looked at their cable bill, their telephone, their cell phone bill, other things they're spending money on, it may turn out that, it's just that they haven't prioritized health care.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Money
  • May
  • Health

• I guess I feel like; if you're doing something and people are accusing you of appropriating something like that so obviously, then I would feel like I've failed as a creative person. It's just like stealing something and doing some sort of slight alteration to it - I'd feel like I'm not doing my job as a musician, or as a creative person - if it's just obvious like that.

  

  Noah Benjamin Lennox Animal Collective
  • People
  • Creative
  • Musician

• But he who knows what insanity is, is sane; whereas insanity can no more be sensible of its own existence, than blindness can see itself.

  

  Apuleius
  • Existence
  • Insanity
  • Blindness

• I got hundreds of emails insulting me, accusing me of being some caveman. I am by no means a Luddite. I have two iPods. I have a cell phone. I have cable TV, HDTV!

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Phones
  • Insulting
  • Accusing