Sherman Alexie Quotes

A lot of native culture has been destroyed. So you already feel lost inside your culture. And then you add up feeling lost and insignificant inside the larger culture. So you end up feeling lost squared. And to never be recognized, to never have any power, you know, other minority communities actually have a lot of economic, cultural power.

Sherman Alexie

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• Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Time
  • Age
  • Cheer

• 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.

  

  Vernon Jordan
  • Leadership
  • Rockefeller Plaza

• In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Experience
  • Writer
  • Letter

• In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Truth
  • Politics
  • Argument

• When you're 16, the top of the world is directing a gangster movie.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • World
  • Movie
  • You

• Entrepreneurial Philanthropy is not just a philosophy or a dream. It is a promise that philanthropy is at its best when it is founded on entrepreneurial zest and agility.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Dream
  • Best
  • Philosophy

• I DJ'd for years. I DJ'd in high school, and I think my parents thought it was a passing thing. And then when I was in my second year of college, I was like, 'Yeah, you guys don't need to send me money anymore. My DJ gigs are good enough. I'm selling music; I think I'm gonna have a record deal. I can pay my tuition.'

  

  Kaskade
  • Good
  • Music
  • School

• I guess I just always had this idea that I would go to Hollywood. I had the typical 'get up and go' attitude that you have to have in order to make the brave step into the big city.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Up
  • City
  • Attitude

• I see poetry as spiritual medicine.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Spiritual
  • Poetry
  • Medicine

• We have about 4 million people who have voted for who they want to see in the Hall of Fame. There are some people they put down that are pretty good players. You have Ray Guy, Jim Plunkett, Lester Hayes and Donnie Shell.

  

  Gale Sayers
  • People
  • Good
  • Guy

• I don't have bad taste; I have no taste. I wear a lot of the things I wore in high school, but not the cowl-neck sweaters. I was never tall, and I am the same size, so I still wear a lot of those clothes.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • School
  • Things
  • Clothes

• I write all of my songs from scratch, so the one thing I love about EDM is the way a song transforms into a piece of art, and how the different sounds can change the feel of the record.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Way
  • Feel
  • Write

• Set politics and party aside: If it's not right for Michigan's small businesses and middle class, it's never been right with me.

  

  Gary Peters
  • Small
  • Party
  • Politics

• I think romantic passion is wanting a little something in return.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Think
  • Passion
  • Romantic

• 'Orange Is the New Black' was my home show. I knew the set; I knew everyone there.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Home
  • Black
  • Orange

• Now, if the ignorance of nature gave birth to Gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.

  

  Baron d'Holbach
  • Nature
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance

• In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of literature. And so it goes.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Death
  • Beginning
  • Literature

• Not only is she obsessed with fur, she also collects clothes, houses, land, islands, and, above all, diamonds. Lots of diamonds. Big ones. The biggest are the size of pigeon eggs, and she's already wearing them for breakfast. I feel sorry for her. She'd give it all up just to be a couple of years younger.

  

  Klaus Kinski
  • Up
  • She
  • Couple

• And first he will see the shadows best, next the reflections of men and other objects in the water, and then the objects themselves, then he will gaze upon the light of the moon and the stars and the spangled heaven...Last of all he will be able to see the sun.

  

  Plato
  • Heaven
  • Shadows
  • Reflections

• 'There's a curious knot that binds novelists and terrorists...Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness. What writers used to do before we were all incorporated.'

  

  Don DeLillo
  • Life
  • Culture
  • Taken

• Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture: from the necessity for defending itself against the crushing supremacy of nature.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Culture
  • Achievements
  • Religious Ideas

• No one spoke in terms of children's literature, as opposed to adult literature, until around the 1940s. It wasn't categorised much before then. Even Grimm's tales were written for adults. But it is true that ever since 'Harry Potter' there has been a renaissance in fantasy literature. J. K. Rowling opened the door again.

  

  Rick Riordan
  • Children
  • Around
  • Opened

• A lot of native culture has been destroyed. So you already feel lost inside your culture. And then you add up feeling lost and insignificant inside the larger culture. So you end up feeling lost squared. And to never be recognized, to never have any power, you know, other minority communities actually have a lot of economic, cultural power.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Culture
  • Community
  • Feelings