Sherman Alexie Quotes

If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.

Sherman Alexie

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• Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you've run delirium's course once or twice in your life, try to imagine a version that never ends.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Life
  • Different
  • Same

• Just as water is a key ingredient to growth on the farm, capital is required for businesses to thrive.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Water
  • Growth
  • Key

• As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Pain
  • Child
  • Young

• There are still so many movies made starring 50 men and one woman! A white male actor should never be allowed to complain about anything. Shut up and sit in the corner. I mean, seriously!

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Up
  • Men
  • Woman

• I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Political
  • Personalities

• I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Means
  • Ambitious
  • Take Care

• If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Believe
  • Single

• If I had not been dyslexic, I wouldn't have needed sports. I would have been like every other kid. Instead, I found my one thing, and I was never going to let go of it. That little dyslexic kid is always in the back of your head.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Sports
  • Back
  • Go

• It's the way you ride the trail that counts.

  

  Dale Evans
  • You
  • Ride
  • Trail

• I'm 80 years old, and I don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.

  

  Larry King
  • Up
  • Know
  • Grow

• We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Know
  • Company
  • Stars

• Money is a kind of poetry.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Money
  • Kind
  • Poetry

• Even more than dying itself, I'm scared of the horror-movie changes that happen to the human body as it ages. I think of it as a sort of haunted-house effect, living inside a crumbling, creaking structure that is full of ghosts and will, some day, fall down.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Movie
  • House
  • Day

• I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Up
  • Father
  • Relationship

• Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.

  

  Victor Cousin
  • Ignorance
  • Source
  • Misery

• Oh, yes, we were on location with Another Man's Poison, which I wrote for Bette Davis.

  

  Val Guest
  • Man
  • Poison
  • Location

• They say I'm insane because I need to have so much creative control. They say I'm unmanageable, but I'm not. I just know what I like. I'm obsessed with it. If you can't control it, that's like having somebody else paint your pictures. How could you do that? I never could.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Know
  • Control
  • Creative

• I believe I am connecting to angels and spirit guides and ancestors. All of that is falling under the category of God and the energy presence of God, and that is what I can tap into when I tune in and slow down.

  

  Gabrielle Bernstein
  • God
  • Believe
  • Energy

• My work on happiness is the only thing I've ever done where I've heard people in the supermarket talking about it, for instance.

  

  Angus Deaton
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• How you staff, particularly the chief of staff, the national security adviser, your White House counsel, how you set up a process in the system to surface information and generate options for a president, understanding that ultimately the president is going to be the final decision-maker. That's something that has to be attended to right away.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • House
  • Understanding

• I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Teach
  • Guitar
  • Smoke

• My kids have got to work themselves around my life, not the other way. That's how kids become brats, if you're there staring at them all the time going, 'Are you alright?'

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Kids
  • Chance
  • Stories