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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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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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
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I like the classic look. Keep it simple. There's only so much you can wear.
C. Z. Guest
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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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I truly felt that was going to be my last tour. So here we are again and I'm saying this will probably be my last tour. That's truly the way I'm looking at it.
Janet Jackson
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I know you can't control everything, and everything is in God's hands ultimately, but I'm going to fight, go out and perform for everybody, I don't care.
Kanye West
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He knew one thing only, and it was beyond fear or reason: He was not going to die crouching here like a child playing hide-and-seek; he was not going to die kneeling at Voldemort’s feet . . . he was going to die upright like his father, and he was going to die trying to defend himself, even if no defense was possible. . . .
Joanne Rowling
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I'm now making myself as scummy as I can. Why? I want to be a poet, and I'm working at turning myself into a seer. You won't understand any of this, and I'm almost incapable of explaining it to you. The idea is to reach the unknown by the derangement of all the senses. It involves enormous suffering, but one must be strong and be a born poet. It's really not my fault.
Arthur Rimbaud
