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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The State Marriage Defense Act helps safeguard the ability of states to preserve traditional marriage for their citizens.
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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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For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.
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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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You shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh.
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Peace between Israel and Palestine would be a giant step toward greater regional stability, and it would finally let both Israelis and Palestinians benefit from the Middle East's growing wealth.
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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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If you look at the world with parted lips and a pure heart, and will the good, won't that make a true and beautiful poem? One's heart tells one that it will; and one's heart is wrong. There is no direct road to Parnassus.
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All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be.
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We must look to the native healers all over the world and study their methods... Their methods are chemical and personal. It's a combination of care, attention, intention and chemistry that allows consciousness to be made malleable and recast in other forms.
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'When you were little, what inspired you to feel this way?'" Then he paused and asked, "Looking in the mirror and having it crack in two?" Instead of clobbering him, I laughed-the kind of laugh that escapes into the air before you can catch it. The kind of chuckle that shows a tiny form of acceptance. Trevor obviously didn't expect me to find his remark entertaining. He was primed for a fight. We both cracked up and locked eyes. His gaze lingered a little too long, not in a creepy way, but in a way that says I'm not ready to let this moment go.
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If you had a Ministry box set under your Christmas tree, wrapped in paper, 'From Beer to Eternity' is the bow that goes around the present, you know what I mean?
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I always say I should do more yoga. Or do yoga - more would mean I do some. I've done none. But I always want to do yoga because I'm getting old. Nerves are getting pinched every other day, and I really just gotta get more limber.
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...what really counts is not the immediate act of courage or of valor, but those who bear the struggle day in and day out - not the sunshine patriots but those who are willing to stand for a long period of time.
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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.
