Sherman Alexie Quotes
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
Rafe Spall -
History is a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. Wells -
Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
Natalie Massenet -
A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
Kate Grenville -
I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.
Sadie Frost -
I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
Jackie Chan
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I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.
Dan Brown -
I will count to 10 before tweeting.
Valerie Trierweiler -
I feel like I'm the luckiest actress in the world.
Kate Flannery -
A lot of the images I use are already out there in the public or in the news. I just steal them or photograph them or repaint them, so they've already been talked about, already been consumed.
Nate Lowman -
In Arab Islamic society, it is traditionally taboo to criticize the lifestyle or personal philosophy of any practicing Muslim.
G. Willow Wilson -
Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal.
F. Lee Bailey
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We're both very very lazy, and having someone else do half the work is very convenient.
Lana Wachowski -
Commercial success still hasn't come to an artist that isn't signed to a record label. There are very few artists that can succeed without the help of a record label. The role of the record label is still required, it's still necessary.
Edgar Bronfman, Jr. -
When I'm a brunette, it's four times harder to hail a taxi. Then I go blonde again, and suddenly there are taxis everywhere.
Sally Phillips -
I am not afraid of taking risks. We have to take risks for peace.
Yitzhak Shamir -
When climate change supercharges weather patterns, the disadvantaged often suffer first and most.
Frances Beinecke -
Sites like Funny or Die and College Humor are great, but I'd say it's appealing to 80% men and 20% women.
Zooey Deschanel
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There's a tendency at the senior and middle-manager level to be too big-picturish and too superficial. There is a phrase, "The devil is in the details." One can formulate brilliant global strategies whose executability is zero. It's only through familiarity with details - the capability of the individuals who have to execute, the marketplace, the timing - that a good strategy emerges. I like to work from details to big pictures.
Andy Grove -
We may cover a multitude of sins with the white robe of charity.
Henry Ward Beecher -
When I was born, that was right smack in the middle of 'The Cosby Show.' But what I remember is my mother took me with her... She exposed me to the world in such a way where I was included. And I didn't feel like she chose her career over me.
Condola Rashad -
You're either humble or you're not. If you were a jerk before the fame, you just become a jerk with a bigger spotlight. Whoever you are really comes through.
Oprah Winfrey -
All I owe the world is my art.
Sherman Alexie