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

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• Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Time
  • Parents
  • Sometimes

• 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
  • Greatest
  • Disaster
  • Consequences

• When you're in a band, it's like everyone's the CEO, and anyone could destroy it at any moment.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Band
  • Moment
  • Everyone

• Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.

  

  Inara George
  • Sales
  • Masses
  • Overlooked

• 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
  • Life
  • Sister
  • Writer

• I love all kinds of music. My dad's from London, so he loves David Bowie, the Stones, The Clash. I grew up with that influence while loving poetry and loving all kinds of current music.

  

  Adam Hicks
  • Music
  • Poetry
  • Influence

• 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
  • Long
  • Relationship
  • Period

• I am about safety for the people and the planet.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Safety
  • Planet

• And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Mother
  • Today
  • Success

• Every role is easy. As an actor it is my job to make my job easy. If I start hyperventilating about my roles, then how will I do it? So, with all my roles, somewhere I feel comfortable about them, and that is why I play them.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Why
  • Job
  • Easy

• I like the classic look. Keep it simple. There's only so much you can wear.

  

  C. Z. Guest
  • You
  • Simple
  • Look

• Ricky Martin is one of my idols in the industry.

  

  Maluma
  • Industry
  • Idols
  • Ricky

• When you get out of the Marine Corps, you feel like you can do anything.

  

  Adam Driver
  • You
  • Feel
  • Marine

• Imagination needs to be fed.

  

  Barbara Januszkiewicz
  • Imagination
  • Needs
  • Fed

• My mother lived till she was 95 and never had a line on her face or a frown line. She was beautiful.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • She
  • Mother
  • Beautiful

• Shakespeare feels very natural to me.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Me
  • Feels
  • Natural

• I have written only what I have thought through, felt through and suffered through.

  

  Vasily Grossman
  • Thought
  • Felt
  • Through

• I'm very good about eating breakfast, lunch and dinner.

  

  Yunjin Kim
  • Good
  • Breakfast
  • Lunch

• 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
  • World
  • America
  • Police

• On a given day, you can have market fluctuations where prices fluctuate far more than the underlying economic value of the unit.

  

  N. Murray Edwards
  • Day
  • Value
  • Economic

• I could express my feelings more easily if they could be put into the notes of music, but as the very best concert would not cover my affection for you, dear daddy, I must use the simple words of my heart, to lay before you my utmost gratitude and filial affection.

  

  Frederic Chopin
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Feelings

• In marriage, we may learn to check our words, and to submerge those feelings and actions which will inevitably lead to strife, but we remain essentially the same.

  

  Gaynor Arnold
  • Marriage
  • Feelings
  • Actions

• I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing Indian.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Feelings
  • Successful
  • Disappointing