Sherman Alexie Quotes
Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.
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But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches Brazilian techniques - which is what we wanted to incorporate into the film. And some of those things we eventually got in.
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Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
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Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.
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Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
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It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
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I was totally offended when people said we were like *Nsync. I've got nothing against them. I know those guys. But comparing us was lame. It was apples and oranges.
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My book 'The Exciting Adventures of Boo' was first published when I was fifteen. It is a children's book with ten different stories. In each story, the main character Boo learns a lesson - one of the ten most important lessons I learned as a kid. I also donated all the money from my books I personally sold to my local ASPCA Animal Shelter.
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In Hungary, if homosexuals would like to live together, they can do so under the civil code. But what we call marriage is exclusively for one man and one woman. We are a Christian country. That's a historical fact.
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I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.
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On the one hand, Porto Monenegro is shape-shifting - it replaced a naval shipyard with a new marina - but it's also mind-shifting, opening up an array of other small business opportunities. And this shape-shifting and mind-shifting, it is exactly what we're trying to do in Montenegro.
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I've always done what I thought was good if I could live on what they were offering-and sometimes if I couldn't. So even when I was broke, my career didn't lack for interest.
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The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the stories to tell - but they're all formula.
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I had a heart then But the queen has been overthrown
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Playing 'Bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
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Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate.
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When I went into a start-up in tech, I knew I could always go back to a law firm.
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I respect people's opinion. Everybody has they own 'pound for pound' list.
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In an effort to create a culture within my classroom where students feel safe sharing the intimacies of their own silences, I have four core principles posted on the board that sits in the front of my class, which every student signs at the beginning of the year: read critically, write consciously, speak clearly, tell your truth.
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That's been the most exciting part of the show - incorporating the magic and the acrobats and the singing and dancing to make our 'Pippin.'
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Cyber attacks rain down on us from many places. You have to make your systems secure and safe and teach your people cyber hygiene.
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Like restless birds, the breath of coming rain Creeps, lilac-laden, up the village street
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I have to be able to be honest and be credible, and I think I can say, 'This guy did not have his best game today' rather than, 'He is awful and I cannot believe he did that.'
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Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.
