Sherman Alexie Quotes
I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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I lived somebody else's life. It was never about me, it was really about him on every level.
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The Iraq I returned from was, in my mind, a fairly simple place. By which I mean it had little relationship to reality. It's only with time and the help of smart, empathetic friends willing to pull through many serious conversations that I've been able to learn more about what I witnessed.
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My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me.
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John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.
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When you're a writer, you know that a lot of times you have to sneak up on yourself in order to achieve what you want to achieve, and sometimes you don't even know what it is until you've done it.
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A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we're doing in a trio format.
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Don't worry about things you cannot alter
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I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture.
