Sherman Alexie Quotes

Spiritual matters should be private.

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• Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Time
  • Age
  • Taken

• Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Mind
  • Changes
  • Loyalty

• Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • Long
  • Hand
  • Watch

• Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Woman

• I think that when we look at something that's well acted and a story that's well told, it allows us to be a mirror of who we are as human beings and as a culture, and offers a glimpse of where we're headed.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Think
  • Culture
  • Mirror

• I've got a nice car. I love my job. I've got a bagel store, and I have breakfast every morning with friends I grew up with. I've been in movies, I've written books - I don't know how that all happened.

  

  Larry King
  • Job
  • Friends
  • Movies

• Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • More
  • Left
  • Irritating

• Pairs skating and singles are two different things. Although some skaters have achieved this successfully, it is a very difficult transition. You're looking at double work.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Work
  • Different
  • Looking

• Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Up
  • Power
  • Patience

• In the 21st century, I think it's fair to say, homosexuality is more accepted in Britain and it's wonderful that my generation has been able to grow up with that.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Up
  • Generation
  • Grow

• When you meet someone you love, whether or not they love you back, something occurs in you that makes you want to improve yourself.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Improve

• Anybody can reach anywhere from five to 15 million people weekly making a president look like an idiot, as I did back then, or Tina Fey did with Sarah Palin... You're always preaching to the choir one way or the other.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • People

• There's something about being at the tournaments that you don't really get on TV, although golf is a great sport to watch on television.

  

  Bill Paxton
  • Great
  • Golf

• It is time for the general fund to pay the Social Security fund back.

  

  Jacob Lew
  • Time

• I live in London and I love living in a gun free environment and long may it continue.

  

  Clive Owen
  • Long
  • Live
  • May

• It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Money
  • Nice

• I really consider myself a writer, and a writer who is sometimes a social critic. I'm not an ideologue, I don't join a party. I follow along and take notes. Sometimes I throw in my two cents.

  

  Anne Roiphe
  • Party

• A good vision is an appealing picture of future success, showing what the company will be like when the mission is accomplished.

  

  George Bradt
  • Success
  • Vision
  • Mission

• …find freedom, aliveness, and power not from what contains, locates, or protects us, but from what dissolves, reveals, and expands us.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Freedom
  • Protects
  • Locate

• Now the smallest Particles of Matter may cohere by the strongest Attractions, and compose bigger Particles of weaker Virture.... There are therefore Agents in Nature able to make the Particles of Bodies stick together by very strong Attraction. And it is the Business of experimental Philosophy to find them out.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Matter
  • Strongest
  • Attractions

• Joel Waldfogel is one of the smartest and funniest economists on the planet. I think of him every time I start to unwrap a present. Buy Scroogenomics for your friends and family. It makes the perfect Christmas gift.

  

  Ian Ayres
  • Time
  • Family
  • Friends

• Sometimes I'll have sections that I'm not quite sure how they fit in the puzzle of a tune, they'll get moved around; what I think was originally a verse ends up becoming the chorus, or what's an intro gets dropped as a hook, things get shifted around a lot.

  

  Gotye
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• Spiritual matters should be private.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Spiritual
  • Should
  • Matter