Sherman Alexie Quotes
My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room.
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
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Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!
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I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.
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I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is.
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I prefer to connect with fans from the stage. Like, I don't have a Twitter page, or anything like that. So for me, that's what the show is about. For me - is a way to interact with fans; being up onstage and showing them, through music - which is all I really know - the best way to say thank you.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'
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I definitely want to work in Hindi films.
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Fortunately, I have money that's from my life's work. But it's money that I share and used greatly to fight poverty in my country.
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I think there's an abundance of talent in America and there will never be not a lot of talent out there.
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And Israel is not only our ally; it is a beacon of what democracy can and should mean… If the people of the Middle East are not sure what democracy means, let them look to Israel.
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Life insurance is a commodity.
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Every campaign, Garry Wills once wrote, 'taught Nixon the same lesson: mobilize resentment against those in power.' History taught the same to many conservative and reactionary populist movements, whose real attitude to those in power and authority was one of a servile, envious, vicarious adoration.
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If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.
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There's an oft-used shorthand for the technologist's view of the world. It is assumed that libertarianism dominates Silicon Valley, and that isn't wholly wrong. High-profile devotees of Ayn Rand can be found there.
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I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
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I want to preach till the last breath in my lungs runs out.
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I always like to watch comics and it's interesting that you can tell if someone's funny in 10 seconds.
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The task of tracking deaths for the federal bureaucracy is an enormous one; about 2.5 million Americans die each year. Federal officials say the vast majority of these cases are handled correctly: The death is recorded. Government money is no longer sent to that person. But not always.
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I came out of a family background that involved itself with people.
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I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.
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I've had to recover not only from a single well-publicized incident, but several years of press aftermath.
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My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room.
