Sherman Alexie Quotes
When a glass sits on a table here, people don't wonder if it's half filled or half empty. They just hope it's good beer.
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You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
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I was authorized to do everything that I did.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
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I will openly admit that I've never really followed hockey. Given my New England upbringing, I have always adhered to the Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox, Bruins mantra of professional sports fandom, but hockey was definitely the lowest sport on the totem pole - even when the Bruins won the Stanley Cup.
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Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive.
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Every person wants to stretch himself and widen his audience. Since Hollywood has got more exposure and is shown all over the world, it's obvious that every actor would want to do an English film and explore himself.
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Separate inherently is not equal. There's a reason why $45 million was spent against marriage equality. It's because people understand the word does have meaning. And equality comes when we accept the same notions and the same institutions for everyone, regardless of race and gender and regardless of sex orientation.
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That'll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user!
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I don't care about making a fool of myself on stage anymore. I don't care what people think.
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The cause of war is preparation for war.
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As for my style, for my vision of the cinema, editing is not simply one aspect; it's the aspect.
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All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be.
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You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk. If they want to get you, over time they will.
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Augustine's description of Ambrose's silent reading (including the remark that he never read aloud) is the first definite instance recorded in Western literature.
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It's always a struggle growing up in Akron.
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To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.
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I like to be real. I don't like things to be staged or fussy.
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It's just so hard sometimes to work out where people stand on these things. I mean, isn't the Pope a feminist?
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Justice doesn’t exist! We did worse things. Nobody deserves to go to that place, Alec said. Anyway, weren’t you Christian types supposed to forgive everybody?I will shed no tears for that bastard’s damnation, said Nicholas stonily.No wonder nobody’s left that believes in your stupid religion, said Alec.
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We get a lot of emails, a lot of suggestions on the kinds of ideas and things that people would like to do. There's a lot of good ones, but a lot of them are something that the franchise couldn't or wouldn't endorse, just as being not consistent with what the NBA would want or, probably, what we would even want, too.
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There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.
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As love and joy flood our streets today, it is hard to imagine how anyone could deny the full protection of our laws to any of our fellow Americans – but there are those who would.
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When a glass sits on a table here, people don't wonder if it's half filled or half empty. They just hope it's good beer.
