Sherman Alexie Quotes
I'm not a pacifist by any measure, but I'm also fully aware that the reasons I might go to war could be very dubious.
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I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.
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As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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Montenegro belongs to a rare number of countries that have managed to make progress on every internationally recognisable indicator.
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To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
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I used to have to force myself to go, okay, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing and then all of a sudden a thought of some where could come in. Now I can just focus and not think about anything. So, yeah, I guess I do that a lot.
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Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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A car is a killing machine. It's like waving a loaded gun. People don't realise how dangerous they are.
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You spend so much to buy these media net stories or full page ads to build perception... you can rather save this money and put it in the making or marketing of the film.
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What's right with America and what's right with Islam have a lot in common. At their highest levels, both worldviews reflect an enlightened recognition that all of humankind shares a common Creator - that we are, indeed, brothers and sisters.
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I'm comfortable in the locker room situation, so whatever.
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Stronger families. Stronger communities. A stronger America. It is this kind of prosperity - broad, shared, built on a thriving middle class - that has always been the source of our progress at home. It’s also the foundation of our power and influence throughout the world.
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If the world acts together, we can make sure that all of our children enjoy lives of opportunity and dignity.
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Hierocles: You will never make the crab walk straight. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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Confounding people's expectations was a way to maintain integrity.
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I'm dying to do a tiny indie and play something totally naturalistic without any sort of constraints on me. Something where I can shock everyone.
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The unfortunate thing about working for yourself is that you have the worst boss in the world. I work every day of the year except at Christmas, when I work a half day.
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Now, given the increasing importance of artificial intelligence, automation, machine learning, and other innovative technologies, we are evolving Accenture Digital to be even more relevant to our clients and drive even greater differentiation in the marketplace.
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The war on privilege will never end. Its next grat campaign will be against the special privileges of the underprivileged.
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We would fight not for the political future of a distant city, rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and security for the peoples of the earth.
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I'm not a pacifist by any measure, but I'm also fully aware that the reasons I might go to war could be very dubious.
