Sherman Alexie Quotes

They put me in a holding cell with a black kid and a white kid and a Chinese kid. We're the United Nations of juvenile delinquents.

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• I have won on Honda and Yamaha so maybe it is interesting to win with a third team, Ducati, who are Italian.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Interesting
  • Team
  • Win

• I think the American people deserve to have the issues debated, regardless of which side they're on, so that they are fully aware of what their representatives and senators are voting for and voting against.

  

  Dan Coats
  • People
  • American
  • Voting

• Today, our economy is about an economy of ideas.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Today
  • Ideas
  • Economy

• It's been tough for me being away from the game.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Game
  • Tough
  • Away

• We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Death
  • Winning
  • Dying

• Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • God
  • You
  • White

• Enjoy every sandwich.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Enjoy
  • Every
  • Sandwich

• Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Life
  • Women
  • Children

• If you happen to start a new country in the 1990s, you have the advantage of drafting new laws with the knowledge that the Internet is out there.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • Country
  • Knowledge
  • Start

• I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Good
  • Peace
  • Wish

• If your partner is consistently unhappy, it won't matter if they're incredibly sexy, wildly funny, impressively successful, adorably charismatic - your relationship will be weighed down under the heaviness of their moods.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Funny
  • Relationship
  • Sexy

• Sometimes stereotyping happens not because of any nefarious reasons but rather because people don't know who you are or where you come from, so they go for the broad strokes about you, your culture, your faith, all that.

  

  Faran Tahir
  • People
  • Culture
  • Faith

• Given the divisiveness and pain that have accompanied several state religious freedom laws, I approach attempts at legislating religious exceptions to anti-discrimination laws with great sensitivity and care.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Great
  • Freedom
  • Pain

• Well, I don't think I've ever consciously come up with tricks and tools to, kind of, hide. I do think I'm a bit more vigilant, in terms of safety issues and things. And sometimes it is kind of nice to try to hold onto your anonymity.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • Up
  • Think
  • Nice

• We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Light
  • Years
  • Competition

• Over time, we amass limiting beliefs about how life supposedly is - beliefs that are not valid. Then we allow these limiting beliefs to stop us from fully living our happiest lives.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Time
  • Stop

• Our children are counting on us to provide two things: consistency and structure. Children need parents who say what they mean, mean what they say, and do what they say they are going to do.

  

  Barbara Coloroso
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Need

• You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

  

  Victor Kiam
  • Business
  • Never
  • Hype

• Just believe in the future and direction of the capability that ARM has. Go deep and build a better future, both for the company and for its contribution to the industry. That's what I want ARM to do: invest more the future.

  

  Masayoshi Son
  • Believe
  • Future
  • Deep

• When you have kids, you just love them. It's similar to when you're in love with someone. You just think they are so cool and want to be around them all the time, but what if she starts being embarrassed and only giving me charity visits? I want her to actually want to see me, so that's what I'm going for!

  

  Jeremy Sisto
  • Time
  • She
  • Kids

• Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Mind
  • May
  • Purpose

• If, in 2014, we're still making 'white savior movies,' then it's just lazy and unfortunate. We've grown up as a country, and cinema should be able to reflect what's true. And what's true is that black people are the center of their own lives and should tell their own stories from their own perspectives.

  

  Ava DuVernay
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• They put me in a holding cell with a black kid and a white kid and a Chinese kid. We're the United Nations of juvenile delinquents.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Kids
  • Nations
  • Cells