Sherman Alexie Quotes
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.
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I still have a fear of theater. I don't know if I will manage that. I used to do it. I developed a bit of a phobia. It's not a real phobia. I can go in and watch.
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Robots are good at things that are structured.
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I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.
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Your mind is what makes everything else work.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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I never met a stripe I didn't like.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?
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I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
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There is inspiration all around us.
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There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.
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We launched DirecTV Now. Our 5G evolution plans and improved spectrum position are paving the way for the next generation of super-fast mobile and fixed networks.
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High expectations are the key to everything.
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We must uphold the fighting of tigers and flies at the same time, resolutely investigating law-breaking cases of leading officials and also earnestly resolving the unhealthy tendencies and corruption problems which happen all around people.
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Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
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I'm not like a high intellectual.
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I've never wanted to be famous. That has never been a part of any dream. I do remember being little and thinking I might want to be a singer. But not a famous singer - just, like, a singer.
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In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.
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It grossed something like 12 million dollars and started a cycle of so-called boy-meets-ghoul horror films.
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Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.
