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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I didn't grow up a huge fan of the Western genre because there was never a female character to relate to or look up to.
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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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Nuclear accidents anywhere can affect people everywhere.
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I was brought up by great parents and great grandparents who told me, 'Never, ever think that you're better than anyone else or that what you do is so important that the world won't miss you once you're gone,' and I kind of translate that into the stardom thing.
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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've never been good with structure - doing assignments for the sake of them or doing things I'm supposed to do.
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Why not hold on to whatever I've got because it's as good as it's ever going to get. How can I believe that love is coming, how can I even believe that love exists; if I don't believe it's spiritually based?
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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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When we finished training with my wife we came to St. Paul, because St. Paul was the first place where we got a job offer and we needed some sort of a job to earn some money in order to set up our own studio. It's rather ironic that this job offer came originally through the Walker Art Center.
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I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture.
