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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You shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh.
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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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These were all middle-class kids from literary backgrounds, joining this sort of train going by, this pop train, jumping on. Whereas the rest of the rock scene, you'll find that there's mostly working-class people.
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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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Gena Rowlands is fabulous.
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For historians, hindsight can be a treacherous ally. Enabling us to trace the hidden patterns of past events, it beguiles us with the mirage of inevitability, the assumption that different outcomes lay beyond the limits of the possible.
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Whatever your gender, you can be a Star Wars fan. Of course I knew it from life before, but the core of enthusiastic female fans is a testimony to the non-gendered nature of the audience.
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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.
