Sherman Alexie Quotes
I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing Indian.
Sherman Alexie
Quotes to Explore
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
Dakota Johnson
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I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.
Madeleine Albright
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When you're in a band, it's like everyone's the CEO, and anyone could destroy it at any moment.
Jack Antonoff
Fun.
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Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.
Inara George
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Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer, without that being somehow at the centre.
Taiye Selasi
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With any relationship that goes on and is productive over a long period, there have to be some sort of interlocking qualities in those personalities that make it possible to survive.
Walter Becker
Steely Dan
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I have written only what I have thought through, felt through and suffered through.
Vasily Grossman
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I'm very good about eating breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Yunjin Kim
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In the midst of the heartbreak and wreckage of 9-11, the world also witnessed what is America's greatest strength. Firefighters, nurses, police officers, first responders and local residents worked around the clock to rescue and care for those injured.
Dan Coats
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I try to be as optimistic as I can. I feel like that's the beautiful thing about art and music. It can take you places, and they can be a positive influence. A very soothing influence. Honestly, I feel like there's enough pain and terrible things that happen in life. That's beautiful thing in art, you can really idealize things.
Washed Out
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Something happened culturally: No one is supposed to age past 45 - sartorially, cosmetically, attitudinally.
Frances McDormand
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I never had a long-term plan.
Bryan Adams
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If you can see, hear, feel, and think, you should know that King Dollar rules the United States, and that the workers are robbed and exploited in this country to the heart's content of the masters.If you are not deaf, dumb, and blind, then you know that the American bourgeois democracy and capitalistic civilization are the worst enemies of labor and progress, and that instead of protecting them, you should help to fight to destroy them.
Alexander Berkman
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My kind of gay, meeting a woman and falling in love, is a different experience because it wasn't anything about 'Oh, I've always been gay and I'm breaking the chains.
Carol Leifer
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Of the many 'firsts' with which I have been involved at the Texas Heart Institute —including the first successful human heart transplant in the United States and the first total artificial heart transplant in the world—the achievement that may have the greatest impact on health care did not occur in the operating room or in the research laboratory. It happened on a piece of paper... when we created the first-ever packaged pricing plan for cardiovascular surgical procedures.
Denton Cooley
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I just liked the feeling of being on stage. My parents weren't pushing me, they didn't have to, I was obsessed.
Harry Connick, Jr.
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To be successfull you need friends and to be very successfull you need enemies.
Sidney Sheldon
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I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing Indian.
Sherman Alexie
