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.
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I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.
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I'm not going to be able to play it like somebody else.
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I shall never ask any pilot to go on a mission that I won't go on.
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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.
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If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.
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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?
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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.
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You simply cannot continue a nation as America without that Christian base of liberty.
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I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.
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I swear a lot; I always have. So does my husband. Our son, surprisingly, does not swear much at all.
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Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.
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I wasn't an overbearing child. But I was aggressive. I always managed to get what I wanted somehow.
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By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.
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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.
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If the Indy Racing League didn't have the Indianapolis 500, do you think it would have lasted more than six months? No chance.
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When I was a kid, I was following black soul music.
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MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it.
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It's not my concern to make a commercial pop record. I want to make a record of music that I would listen to, that is lyrically rich and has songs that people can relate to - more along the Jakob Dylan route: people who create for the art of it and not necessarily the monetary rewards of it.
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The uniformity and repeatability of print created the 'political arithmetic' of the seventeenth century and the 'hedonistic calculus' of the eighteenth. (p. 237)
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I've always been like nah, I'm going to have it my way, that way, when I look out that window at the end of the day, I can say I did it my way, whether it's on a higher level, or a level where I can just maintain, I can still say I did it my way.
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Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair.
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Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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I look more Indian when I'm serious.
