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 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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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.
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Human happiness and human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself. It is wrong to expect some final satisfaction to come from money or from a computer.
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We took risks. We knew we took them. Things have come out against us. We have no cause for complaint.
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Alas, it looks like those unsubstantiated rumours about me are about to come true after all this time.
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When I watch a movie, I don't make a sound or move. The more I'm into the movie, the more bored I look.
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Why give up before we try?
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I look more Indian when I'm serious.
