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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Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.
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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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I love being in public places, but I can't stand long, drawn-out music festivals.
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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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I thought I could write. So it was my intention to start off as a writer. But I wasn't really great at delivering the word at the end of the day.
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I've been touching instruments since the day I was born. My mother is Brazilian, and she listens to Brazilian music. My father was a musician, and I've seen pictures of him when he was in a band playing guitar and piano. He loved country music, Frank Sinatra, and stuff like that.
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I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture.
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Maybe silence is something we're uncomfortable with as a culture, I don't know.
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If someone said, 'Jon, we need $250 million a year from now and we can make a dramatic breakthrough for ovarian cancer,' I'd have $250 million in two months. You just work day and night if the cause in your heart is justified.
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I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture.
