Sherman Alexie Quotes
Environmentalism is a luxury. Just like being a vegetarian is a luxury. When you have to worry about eating - you're not going to be worried about where the food's coming from, or who made your shoes. Poverty, whether planned or not planned, is a way of making environmentalism moot.Sherman Alexie
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I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.
Becki Newton -
I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi -
I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
Jack Vance -
Sometimes I just think that there are more things to be said to make the audience understand what I'm trying to do more. When I'm singing, I don't want you to just hear the melody. I want you to relive the story, because most of the songs have pretty good storytelling.
B. B. King -
When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
Barbara Amiel -
English has always had a special fondness for other European languages, a neighborly soft spot - perhaps because Britain has been invaded by speakers of those languages from the onset of its recorded history.
Rabih Alameddine
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I'm a big Hall and Oates fan.
Nate Parker -
I see it every day: People trying to create a home that somebody else tells them they should have. I don't care if it's a magazine or a bossy friend - when somebody says, 'This is what's elegant, this is what's trendy,' if it doesn't represent you, you're not going to be happy.
Nate Berkus -
CrossFit is just another thing I've become passionate about. I like to continue to make gains and compete with myself. There's many ways to do that either with adding weight or competing with my own times or my previous records. It's been nothing but a benefit to me, and I love lifting weights.
Paige VanZant -
People like to see me fight. A name can only take you so far. There are only a few fighters out of the thousands of boxers out there that have name recognition. I'm definitely not upset by that.
Laila Ali -
I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!
Jackie Evancho -
I cannot believe that in all the years that there have been female stand-ups, there has never been a show just for them.
Kate Flannery
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If a woman is super-successful, she is called a psychopath.
Kangana Ranaut -
In manufacturing food for its own cells, the plant is producing a supply of food that will be available for the sustenance of animal cells also. Thus the entire animal World may be said to be a vast parasitic colony as absolutely dependent upon the vegetable colony for its essential food supplies as any other parasite is dependent upon its host.
Luther Burbank -
No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.
Aphra Behn -
I loved 'The Wizard of Oz,' and I'm a huge Judy Garland fan, too.
Lindsay Mendez -
We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows.
David Eagleman -
There's not a day that William and I don't wish that she was... we don't wish that she was still around, and we wonder what kind of a mother she would be now, and what kind of a public role she would have, and what a difference she would be making.
Prince Harry
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The reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not be of any benefit to Germany.
Franz Halder -
Adult gorillas being poached for their meat-baby gorillas stolen for the pet trade. I have just spent a week in West Africa seeing this for myself. I am horrified. I am desperate. But I am determined to do something about it and I'm in it for the long-haul. But I can't do it on my own.
Rachel Hunter -
Before 1959, some Americans saw Cuba as something to exploit, ignored poverty, enabled corruption. And since 1959, we’ve been shadow-boxers in this battle of geopolitics and personalities. I know the history, but I refuse to be trapped by it.
Barack Obama -
I was practically raised with Christmas music.
Brian Stokes Mitchell -
It took a long time for me to have any impact in the business because I didn't look like an actor, I didn't sound like an actor.
Brian Dennehy -
Environmentalism is a luxury. Just like being a vegetarian is a luxury. When you have to worry about eating - you're not going to be worried about where the food's coming from, or who made your shoes. Poverty, whether planned or not planned, is a way of making environmentalism moot.
Sherman Alexie