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 know firsthand the complexities of leading an enterprise through business and technology transformation. It takes intense focus, a strong drive, and a clearly communicated vision to inspire and take an organization from where they are, to where they need to be - or where they want to go.
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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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In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
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We always learn more from the losing than the winning.
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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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As for the apostolic epistles, what person who is skilled in literary interpretation would think them to be plain and easily understood, when even in them there are thousands of passages that provide, as it through a window, a narrow opening leading to multitudes of the deepest thoughts?
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Hierocles: You will never make the crab walk straight. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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Minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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My countrymen, the surpassing war of all times has involved us, and found us utterly unprepared in either a mental or military sense. The Republic must awaken. The people must understand. Our safety lies in full realization the fate of the nation and the safety of the world will be decided on the western battlefront of Europe.
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I was born in 1954. My parents were brought up in the war years, and life was hard.
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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.
