Sherman Alexie Quotes

Most of my heroes are just decent people. Decency is rare and underrated.

Sherman Alexie

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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.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Age
  • Perfect
  • Youth

• I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Money
  • Thought
  • Movies

• 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.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Day
  • Singing
  • Training

• I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.

  

  Patricia Arquette
  • Me
  • Part
  • Grew

• 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.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Myself

• Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Time
  • Better
  • Morality

• 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.

  

  Adam Christopher
  • Money
  • Book
  • Together

• I like an even-keeled, slow-paced job.

  

  Washed Out
  • Job
  • Like

• 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.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Children
  • Today
  • Problem

• In every generation, there are quite firm rules on how to behave when you are crazy.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Crazy
  • Rules
  • Generation

• 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.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Mind
  • Girls
  • Straightforward

• 'Floating Worlds,' which received a fair amount of attention when it was first published, deserves rediscovery.

  

  Pamela Sargent
  • Attention
  • First
  • Floating

• If there's one thing I hope people are certain of it's this: I'm looking out for YOU - the taxpayer.

  

  Laura Miller
  • People
  • Hope
  • Looking

• I grew my dreadlocks 12 years ago because they give me the freedom to roll out of bed and not spend hours on my woolly, thick hair. I get tons of dropped jaws and compliments, so I reckon folks like them all right.

  

  Valerie June
  • Freedom
  • Me
  • Hair

• I like to get real pretty.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Real
  • Pretty
  • Like

• American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Long
  • American
  • Justice

• 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.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Believe
  • Together
  • Winning

• Ein Künstler ist, wer sein Centrum in sich selbst hat. Wem es da fehlt, der muss einen bestimmten Führer und Mittler ausser sich wählen.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

• As an artist, you reflect the world around you. To do that, you must dive in, take risks, fall on your face, win, and sometimes lose a great deal.

  

  Kellie Martin
  • World
  • Great
  • Fall

• I've actually got turned down for a lot of roles because I'm not bubbly enough. People have told me to be more 'up', but I can't, really. I find it hard to be smiley and giggly all the time.

  

  Emily Browning
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I don't think of myself predicting things. I'm expressing possibilities. Things that could happen. To a large extent it's a question of how badly people want them to.

  

  Freeman Dyson
  • People
  • Question

• I love to swim, and what I have been able to do - give people hope.

  

  Victoria Arlen
  • People
  • Hope

• I've repeatedly seen unscrupulous lenders use every con in the book to charm and lie to homeowners. Lenders actually paid brokers a premium to put people in higher-priced loans with toxic features, such as adjustable rates and prepayment penalties.

  

  Lisa Madigan
  • People
  • Book

• Most of my heroes are just decent people. Decency is rare and underrated.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • People
  • Hero
  • Decent