Sherman Alexie Quotes
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I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.
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Kids are disorganized.
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I'm a terrible cook, but I make very good lobster salad.
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Records have images. There are wet records and dry records. And big records.
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The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.
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Kids with Down syndrome are, by and large, quite affectionate and relatively guileless, and frequently, the attachments to them grow and deepen. And the meaning that parents find in it grows and deepens.
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I could have quite literally snogged until the cows came home. And when they came home I would have shouted, "WHAT HAVE YOU COWS COME HOME FOR? CAN'T YOU SEE I'M SNOGGING, YOU STUPID HERBIVORES???
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My personal history would not be disappointing to readers, but it is my own affair which I want to keep to myself. I am in fact in no way more important than is the typesetter for my books, the man who works the mill; no more important than the man who binds my books and the woman who wraps them and the scrubwoman who cleans up the office.
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The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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The whole thrust of yogic philosophical and scientific inquiry has therefore been to examine the nature of being, with a view to learning to respond to the stresses of life without so many tremors and troubles.
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I need the information and then I can go. So, as long as I have the information and a little bit of sleep, I can do the rest.
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Confidence, of course is an admirable asset to a golfer, but it should be an unspoken confidence. It is perilous to put it into speech. The gods of golf lie in wait to chasten the presumptious.
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Anxiety is an extension of the dynamics of fear. It's the feeling of fear without an awareness of the object of your fear. All you know is that you're fearful, but you can't specify exactly what you are afraid of. You just worry about everything.
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The predominant quality of successful people is optimism.... Your level of optimism is the very best predictor of how happy, healthy, wealthy, and long-lived you will be.
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Life is short. Im gonna be happy with mine.
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But what if we are dealing with fools?
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Stay quiet and the noisy surface dialogues will cease.
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From all who dwell below the skiesLet the Creator's praise arise;Let the Redeemer's name be sungThrough every land, by every tongue.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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I've always said that I learned the English I know through two sources -- Marvel Comics and Finnegans Wake.
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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I was a happy kid up until I hit the teen years.
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My name is Sherman J. Alexie Jr., and I am an insomniac.
