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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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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Don't accept that you are in crisis just because everyone says you are.
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My advice to anyone is, have confidence, sit back, wait for the process to happen. And when it does, whatever the good Lord has in mind, he has in mind.
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I was a dummy in school.
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If I weren't so lazy, I would have 14 books, not eight.
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Grit may carry risk because it's about putting all your eggs in one basket, to some extent.
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Americans love to hear good things about their bad habits.
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Only boys were so foolish that they actually believed their arguments were their reasons.
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People will tell me, "Oh, my kid watches your show on their iPad, over and over again until they memorize." And I'm like, "Wow, I was that kid watching other shows. That's the coolest!"
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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.
