Sherman Alexie Quotes

My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the damage.

Sherman Alexie

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• Positive
• Stuff
• Understood
• Damage
• Partners
• Native

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• It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.

  

  Tacitus
  • Nature
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• Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Fraud

• I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Painting
  • New York
  • Paris

• Everyone thinks their family is the craziest family in the world. Like, 'My God, my family's crazy!'

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • World
  • God
  • Family

• We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Future
  • Think
  • Party

• I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.

  

  Ilie Nastase
  • Wife
  • Missing
  • Police

• I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Friendships

• There are many guys out there who look like me - you know, brunettes with long hair. There are thousands. But I think the difference is that I am a real polo player, who does endorsements for Ralph Lauren on the side, and I've always looked at it that way.

  

  Nacho Figueras
  • Real
  • Player
  • Hair

• My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joint called Utah Coal & Lumber that was one of only two or three restaurants at that time. Park City was a sleepy little mining town, with not a condo in sight.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Time
  • Father
  • City

• I'm just willing to try different things. But you gotta keep it all making sense.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Different
  • You
  • Try

• I hate negative ads in general.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Hate
  • Negative
  • General

• I've been around the bend in corporations.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Around
  • Corporations
  • Bend

• Each year I host a leadership summit in my district, and my biggest advice to young people is get experience. Get your foot in the door.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • People
  • Experience
  • Door

• Isn't that the great thing about Christmas? You get a lot of respite, time to recharge your batteries, time with family without too much else happening anywhere else in the world, time to focus on the people you love and the activities that you enjoy, time to exercise, to read.

  

  Wayne Swan
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• When I was really young, my babysitters had horses, and I started riding them.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Young
  • Really
  • Riding

• The idea of us telling a story where a character doesn't get everything he wants at the end is one of the relatable things - dealing with failures and missteps in life - and it's something that's so rarely dealt with in movies, especially kids' movies.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Life
  • Character
  • Kids

• The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Real
  • Paris
  • Valley

• I directed a movie and now, I'm going to do the editing.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Movie
  • Now
  • Going

• The worst thing about being on the road is all you want to do when you get home is to stay home, but as soon as you get back, all the wife wants to do is go out because she's been stuck home all the time you've been stuck on the road.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Time
  • Home
  • She

• My wife was diagnosed with lupus 16 or 17 years ago, and that's how I kinda got involved in it. I just finished my fifth annual Bobby Hatfield Classic Golf Tournament, and happily I can report that we raised over $52,000. Through the years we've raised not only through the golf tournament, but through other charitable concerts, we've raised over $600,000.

  

  Robert Lee Hatfield
  • Wife
  • Golf
  • I Can

• The experience of the world is worth more than the experience of any one man.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • World
  • Experience

• All I know is that skating is getting better, the guys are getting better throughout the whole age range.

  

  Elvis Stojko
  • Age

• Expediency may tip the scales when arguments are nicely balanced.

  

  Benjamin Cardozo
  • May
  • Argument
  • Balanced

• My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the damage.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Wife
  • Positive
  • Stuff