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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Your mind is what makes everything else work.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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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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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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We live in a democracy, and people are free to sometimes choose the wrong leader.
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He is no longer a city dweller who has even once in his life caught a ruff or seen how, on clear and cool autumn days, flocks of migrating thrushes drift over a village. Until his death he will be drawn to freedom.
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You see one eviction, and you're overcome, but then there's another one and another one and another one.
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Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.
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I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.
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With data collection, 'The sooner the better' is always the best answer.
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Writing is a form of mischief.
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I couldn't speak any English when I first left Russia, and Intimissimi taught me everything. The team was like a family to me - they showed me how to model and how to stay in shape. They really believed in me.
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My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.
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Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.
