Sherman Alexie Quotes
I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture.
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I never even held a guitar until I was 23 and living in California, but then loved it. I'm really not an accomplished instrumentalist. Maybe that has something to do with why I write and sing.
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I'm very heterosexual, so dating women is something I'm not ashamed of. But my love life is not as exciting as it is reported to be.
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
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I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.
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I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.
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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.
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I'm really interested in playing my age.
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All I held against Jews was that so many Jews actually were hypocrites in their claim to be friends of the American black man.
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It is probably very necessary to present your ego at some point.
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God drove Cain out of his presence and sent him into exile far away from his native land, so that he passed from a life of human kindness to one which was more akin to the rude existence of a wild beast.
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The threat is desertification. My response is a sandstone wall made from solidified sand.
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Walking on thin ice, I'm paying the price. I'm throwing the dice in the air. Why must we learn it the hard way And play the game of life with your heart?
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When you think of Canada, you think of hockey and you think of Wayne Gretzky.
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I wouldn't want anyone to think that work is the major thing in my life.
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Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography.
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Every dollar spent on education should go toward helping our teachers teach and our students learn.
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I agree completely with my son James when he says 'Internet is like electricity. The latter lights up everything, while the former lights up knowledge'.
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After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
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I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.
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One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly the right suggestions to the mind of the reader, are essential.
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I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.
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People always make war when they say they love peace.
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I think Bernie's [Sanders] setting a direction in the way that [Barry] Goldwater when he lost - I'm not saying he's going to lose. We don't know what is going to happen. It's early. But I think he's already set a lot of themes.
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I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture.
