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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I started out doing theater when I was really young, and I completely fell in love with it. I knew that this was what I wanted to do.
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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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Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
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The civil war which has so long prevailed between Spain and the Provinces in South America still continues, without any prospect of its speedy termination.
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In beach volleyball, there are only two of you on the court, so it's so easy for things to go south and take everything personal.
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I said, who the hell wants to speak about politics when I’m in front of the boy scouts, right?
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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.