Sherman Alexie Quotes
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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 -
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
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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 -
We're both very very lazy, and having someone else do half the work is very convenient.
Lana Wachowski
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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 -
Presbyterians are 'the spirit of the Antichrist.' (Greg Palast, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, p. 239)
Pat Robertson
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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.
Curtis Carlson -
I'd always wanted to do costume drama, but period dramas often become very wooden. Just because they're born in the 1400s, all of a sudden people start losing their sense of humour or their personalities.
Jodie Comer -
Dubstep has everything for me. Rhythm, sound design, heartfelt emotion - all in one place.
James Blake -
A long-running argument exists over whether Christians and Muslims worship the same God. In my view, they certainly do.
Jay Parini -
All I owe the world is my art.
Sherman Alexie