Sherman Alexie Quotes
The problem for me with liberals is that we've abdicated our moral responsibility to the universe.
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Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.
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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.
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The working environment in L.A. is really refreshing, really good. Because in Malaysia, it's a small country - you end up working with the same people that you like and that you know.
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I grew up watching Super J-Cup tournaments and things like that, and those were pretty cool.
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Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.
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Discipline and united action are the real source of strength for the nation.
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Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour.
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If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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I find women as writers and as characters are operating within narrow confines. They inherit a kind of ghetto of the soul. I'm trying to enlarge the spectrum.
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I don't want to play everyone's best friend. I don't want to play the role of a girl struggling in the ghetto. It's not that that story isn't important, but I saw patterns, and was like, 'I don't relate to these people.'
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You can't second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.
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I guess because people are more aware of who I am, they're going to wonder about my personal life.
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I come with bad genetics, personally.
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We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't disregard that. It's a privilege. That's not to say people don't make mistakes - we're all human. No one's perfect. I'm just going to be myself.
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One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
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Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
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Back in the Eighties, I'd buy the biggest Benetton jumper I could find and would wear it long-sleeved, hanging off my shoulders, with a varsity jacket and a baseball cap on back to front with a quiff. I was the smallest boy in my class, and I looked like a reject from New Kids On The Block. Terrible.
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The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.
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Genuine politics -- even politics worthy of the name -- the only politics I am willing to devote myself to -- is simply a matter of serving those around us: serving the community and serving those who will come after us. Its deepest roots are moral because it is a responsibility expressed through action, to and for the whole.
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In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products which now seem to us to have been of comically little worth, such as brazilwood and pepper, which added a new range of sense experience to a civilization which had never suspected its own insipidity... From these same lands our modern Marco Polos now bring back the moral spices of which our society feels an increasing need as it is conscious of sinking further into boredom, but that this time they take the form of photographs, books, and travelers tales.
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The problem for me with liberals is that we've abdicated our moral responsibility to the universe.
