Sherman Alexie Quotes
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Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.
Carine Roitfeld -
I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.
Harri Holkeri -
I shall never ask any pilot to go on a mission that I won't go on.
Eddie Rickenbacker -
If you ask me, over time, I am a believer in the Indian financial saving story getting stronger; a lot more savers are moving money away from gold and real estate into banks, mutual funds, insurance and equities.
Uday Kotak -
If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.
Lars Ulrich Metallica -
It's always uncomfortable for me when I take off my shirt. No one else is taking their shift off. Why is everyone else in these movies bundled up in layers of clothing and I'm taking my clothes off all the time?
Taylor Lautner
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Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Oprah Winfrey -
You simply cannot continue a nation as America without that Christian base of liberty.
Dan Severson -
I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.
Ingmar Bergman -
I swear a lot; I always have. So does my husband. Our son, surprisingly, does not swear much at all.
Frances McDormand -
Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.
Quentin Crisp -
I wasn't an overbearing child. But I was aggressive. I always managed to get what I wanted somehow.
Kristy Swanson
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By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.
Constance Baker Motley -
I can't sleep in an isolated place without pills, earplugs, and both my children in bed with me for fear of scary, feral characters with a hankering for the wilderness.
Mariella Frostrup -
If the Indy Racing League didn't have the Indianapolis 500, do you think it would have lasted more than six months? No chance.
Mario Andretti -
When I was a kid, I was following black soul music.
Robert Plant Led Zeppelin -
MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it.
David Rockefeller -
Basically you come up with the fictional idea and you start writing that story, but then in order to write it and to make it seem real, you sometimes put your own memories in. Even if it's a character that's very different from you.
Jeffrey Eugenides
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The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.
William Hazlitt -
Suppose you try to convince someone, even if only yourself, that change is an illusion. You work your way through each step until you or your listener is convinced. Yet that your mind entertains one premise after the other and finally reaches the conclusion is itself an instance o f the change the argument denies.
Edward Feser -
As more government functions are privatized, we find political leaders defunding the public school system, shifting government funds to the private, for-profit school industry.
Hank Johnson -
Do not feel badly if your kindness is rewarded with ingratitude; it is better to fall from your dream clouds than from a third-story window.
Machado de Assis -
Training a dog, to me, is on a par with learning to dance with my wife or teaching my son to ski. These are fun things we do together. If anyone even talks about dominating the dog or hurting him or fighting him or punishing him, don't go there.
Ian Dunbar -
I look more Indian when I'm serious.
Sherman Alexie