Sherman Alexie Quotes
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I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.
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Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
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The L.A Trilogy is a series of three novels starring Ray, a robot detective, and his boss, a computer called Googol. Set in an alternative version of 1960s Los Angeles, each book will be more or less standalone but together will form an overarching story arc with 'Brisk Money' as the origin story.
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I like an even-keeled, slow-paced job.
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A big part of the problem that we face today is that our children have been taught at schools that every idea is right, that no one should criticize others' positions, no matter how odious.
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In every generation, there are quite firm rules on how to behave when you are crazy.
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Some girls like to say one thing and mean another. And me being who I am, I'm very straightforward. Everything is very black and white for me. I don't really like playing mind games.
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'Floating Worlds,' which received a fair amount of attention when it was first published, deserves rediscovery.
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If there's one thing I hope people are certain of it's this: I'm looking out for YOU - the taxpayer.
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I like to get real pretty.
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American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term.
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I believed that anything was possible, or at least because I didn't put together everyone else's 'facts' and believe that winning was impossible.
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Ein Künstler ist, wer sein Centrum in sich selbst hat. Wem es da fehlt, der muss einen bestimmten Führer und Mittler ausser sich wählen.
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That means temporary borrowings. People have to understand that because there's going to be the usual political shit storm, sorry, political storm.
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Well if you reduce religion to social work, so does USAID produce...do all that. Actually, a secular organization, actually rather more convincingly. Most of the great philanthropist of the united states have been atheists...doesn't prove that atheism is correct.
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I wasn't being followed around by paparazzi all the time. I was able to be a kid and spend that time with my family and not grow up too quickly.
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It's possible for people to gain control of every facet of your life.
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Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about paintings in this century.
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What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home?
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Most of my heroes are just decent people. Decency is rare and underrated.
