Sherman Alexie Quotes

The problem for me with liberals is that we've abdicated our moral responsibility to the universe.

Sherman Alexie

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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.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Power
  • Today
  • Year

• I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Done
  • Universe
  • Leadership

• 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.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I grew up watching Super J-Cup tournaments and things like that, and those were pretty cool.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Like

• Discipline and united action are the real source of strength for the nation.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Real
  • Action
  • Discipline

• 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.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Know

• Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Love
  • Person
  • For Her

• 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.'

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • People
  • Important
  • Girl

• You can't second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Second-Guess

• I guess because people are more aware of who I am, they're going to wonder about my personal life.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • People
  • Life
  • Wonder

• I come with bad genetics, personally.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Bad
  • Personally
  • Genetics

• 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.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• 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.

  

  Naomi Scott
  • People
  • Perfect
  • Responsibility

• One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Peace
  • Water
  • Reflect

• Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks; and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer's disease.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Faith
  • Competition
  • Challenges

• To be international, you have to first be local. ... When you take a tree that is rooted in the ground, and transfer it from one place to another, the tree will no longer bear fruit. And if it does, the fruit will not be as good as it was in its original place. This is a rule of nature. I think if I had left my country, I would be the same as the tree.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Good
  • Country
  • Nature

• You have the power to remind us all that human dignity is not just a universal aspiration, but a human right.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Power

• For me, the times in my life when I've been single have been more formative and crucial than I could have imagined. I can cope, function and be happy on my own. I'm highly capable. That doesn't mean I don't like being with a partner, or that I don't feel more rounded when I'm with someone. But the times on my own have been so good.

  

  Lesley Manville
  • Life
  • Good
  • Happy

• I painted with acrylic paint, and the reason why I went to oil was mainly because I didn't control it. I was looking for the insecurity of it. I mean, I might have found another reason later, but at that moment, the reason was I was looking for the insecurity.

  

  Albert Oehlen
  • Why
  • Control
  • Reason

• Americans were people who wanted to leave every place better than they found it, to leave every man more of a man than they found him. ... Americans could open doors to almost all that was admirable - it was their misfortune, not their fault, that movies and victrolas and advertisements squeezed in when they opened the door.

  

  Stella Benson
  • People
  • Found
  • Doors

• Now if you ask me, in conclusion, "Well, what, then should properly be done?" Obviously war, but I mean in regard to this issue I would say: Any way possible permission should be refused and if they go ahead and build it, the government should bomb it out of existence, evacuating it first, with no compensation to any of the property owners involved in this monstrosity.

  

  Leonard Peikoff
  • Done
  • War
  • Conclusion

• With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Without
  • Fat
  • Sunglasses

• I had a Stuart Davis poster growing up.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• The problem for me with liberals is that we've abdicated our moral responsibility to the universe.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Problem
  • Responsibility
  • Moral