Sherman Alexie Quotes
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Be obscure clearly.
E. B. White -
When I see other working actresses that are brown, I get so excited. I get so excited when I see Zoe Kravitz, Janelle Monae, Taraji P. Henson, Ava Duvernay, and all these beautiful women working.
Kat Graham -
I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.
Paloma Faith -
Visually speaking, nothing calls Shakespeare to mind like Hamlet holding Yorick's skull.
Ian Doescher -
It's clear that Planned Parenthood went out of its way to paint me as some sort of a zealot - a Trojan-horse zealot who came into Komen and within 10 to 11 months had completely turned the place upside down. That's clearly not who I am, and it's not what happened.
Karen Handel -
What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
C. S. Lewis
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I think I'll die underrated, but it's alright, man.
Fat Joe -
I can be quite surprised by what makes me cry, but it's usually spiritual things.
Rachel McAdams -
I do not like to work with patients who are in love. Perhaps it is because of envy - I, too, crave enchantment. Perhaps it is because love and psychotherapy are fundamentally incompatible. The good therapist fights darkness and seeks illumination, while romantic love is sustained by mystery and crumbles upon inspection.
Irvin D. Yalom -
The thinking in the show, the hacker thinking of how do you approach every problem, I think they're hacking life more than they're hacking systems.
Walter O'Brien -
He don't look the sort of fellow I like; but he's got money and he comes here, and he's good looking, - and therefore he'll be a success.
Anthony Trollope -
Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the non-existence of Zeus or Thor - but they have few followers now.
Arthur C. Clarke
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My parents were extreme left so everything was against the system. I was walking barefoot in the streets of Paris when I was eight. When I started to DJ they hated it, because for them, nightclubs, and all of this life, was terrible and fake.
David Guetta -
I just talked to a young lady, a freshman at Santa Barbara. She's taking a course, and Moneyball's one of the required readings. This young lady could dream of one day becoming a general manager.
Billy Beane -
It is undeniably the duty of the opposition party to field a credible slate of candidates for the nation's highest office.
James Carville -
Considering that I'm British and I talk the way I do, I love it when a director takes a chance on me.
David Oyelowo -
It's hard to say if something is worth the wait, because how the hell do any of us know?
Jimmy Iovine -
You see some of the weirdest people in Detroit casinos.
Kevin Hart
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I don't believe in conspiracy theories. I'm just a cold-blooded investigator.
Kevin Gates -
I can't give into hate. It's too great a burden to bear. I have to stick with love.
Meghan McCain -
Though fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind.
Jonathan Swift -
Let's create a legal system that can work.
Sam Brownback -
Governments, whatever their pretensions otherwise, try to preserve themselves by holding the individual down ... Government itself, indeed, may be reasonably defined as a conspiracy against him. Its one permanent aim, whatever its form, is to hobble him sufficiently to maintain itself.
H. L. Mencken -
Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don't want to play.
Sherman Alexie