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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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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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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I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.
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I've come to the conclusion that a long, personal relationship is next to impossible for me. Ultimately, music is a possessive mistress.
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If you're in a motion-capture studio, you have spherical, reflective markers, which are picked up by cameras that emit infrared - it reflects it, and then the cameras pick up the data.
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The Persians are very fond of wine ... It is also their general practice to deliberate upon affairs of weight when they are drunk; and then in the morning, when they are sober, the decision to which they came the night before is put before them by the master of the house in which it was made; and if it is then approved they act on it; if not, they set it aside. Sometimes, however, they are sober at their first deliberations, but in this case they always reconsider the matter under the influence of wine.
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When employers tell me they prefer married men, and encourage their men to have homes of their own, because it makes them so much steadier, I wonder if they have any idea of all that that implies.
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We haven’t heard from you yet, Frau Vetter,” said the commandant. “Oh yes … yes … I was supposed to call you, that number …” I fumbled in my bag. “I wonder if I still have it …” Did I really imagine that I could convince him I had misplaced his number the way I had “lost” my Nazi Red Cross pin? “The number is on your desk,” he said with a smile. “Ah. Yes. In my office.” “No. Not that desk. The antique desk with the brass fittings and feet like the claws of a lion, the desk you have in your apartment.” In my mind’s ear, I heard the fiend Goebbels laughing.
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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.
