Sherman Alexie Quotes
...it's like this white-Indian thing has gotten out of control. And the thing with the blacks and the Mexicans. Everybody blaming everybody...I don't know what happened. I can't explain it all. Just look around at the world. Look at this country. Things just aren't like they used to be.' 'Son, things have never been like what you think they used to be.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
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Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
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The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.
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This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.
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I have four of the most incredible children. And I have five grandchildren.
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Whatever a person's politics, lawyers have to understand that we are, for most people, the gateway for them to have access to the third branch of government.
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We're both very very lazy, and having someone else do half the work is very convenient.
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I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.
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There are many ways to grow football-wise. You go slow or are pushed to go faster, otherwise you get left behind. For me, there would be trouble in stopping learning.
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I had started writing as a poet in a closed, post-Revival, claustrophobic world, where the shadows of the national upheaval and the intense effort - the intense self-conscious effort - to make a literary movement were still evident. Now we lived a life as writers that was more cosmopolitan, more open, that had more travel and exchange.
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Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
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I've done a little directing, but I love acting more.
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There are certain cities around the world where it's possible to learn about tomorrow's technology as it's being developed today.
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The Federal government does not have any information about extraterrestrial life to conceal, and there are no secret projects for me to investigate.
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Now son, you don’t want to drink beer. That’s for Daddies, and kids with fake IDs.
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My idols are singers like Billie Holiday and Erykah Badu because there's no gloss on what they do.
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...it's like this white-Indian thing has gotten out of control. And the thing with the blacks and the Mexicans. Everybody blaming everybody...I don't know what happened. I can't explain it all. Just look around at the world. Look at this country. Things just aren't like they used to be.' 'Son, things have never been like what you think they used to be.
