Sherman Alexie Quotes

I believe in any kid's ability to read any book and form their own judgements. It's the job of a parent to guide his/her child through the reading of every book imaginable. Censorship of any form punishes curiosity.

Sherman Alexie

• Believe
• Children
• Book
• Reading
• Parent
• Judgement

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• When you've won a gold medal and you're at the top of your sport, everyone's trying to beat you. I find that incredibly motivating.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Trying
  • Gold
  • Find

• I wouldn't ever do a radio edit because I feel like it would totally go against the point of 'Follow Your Arrow.' I just think you're going to like it or not like it.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Think
  • You
  • Go

• I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

  

  J. Cole
  • Always
  • Feel
  • Underdog

• When I first started out as a young journalist, I know that on at least two occasions, when I walked into a newsroom, I knew I was replacing the black person in that job.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Job
  • Black
  • Know

• Never eat spinach just before going on the air.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Never
  • Air
  • Before

• My song 'Play It Again' is a perfect example of my music because the verses go so hard, and they're so urban; and then this pop hook comes out of nowhere and socks you in the face and makes you want to dance.

  

  Becky G
  • Music
  • Song
  • Perfect

• If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Live
  • New York
  • Edgy

• I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Art
  • Business
  • Think

• Following the creation concept that creation processes differed from preservation processes, it is suggested that God endowed each created kind, at the time of its creation, with potential for vast variety.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Time
  • God
  • Potential

• Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • People
  • Up
  • Freedom

• The fact of the matter is that instead of going around the world and haranguing countries for engaging with China, the West should be encouraging its own businesses to trade and invest in these regions.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • World
  • Encouraging
  • China

• The coolest thing about the series is that we stay very true to the books; it would be silly for us not to, because the books are exactly what the fans want to see. There's an action side to it, which I love, and there are werewolves now. There aren't just vampires. There's a wolf pack.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Love
  • True
  • Action

• It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Myself
  • Decision
  • Language

• No two notes are ever the same volume. With the guitar, you really have to model in your mind this wider thing; you're trying to create the illusion of a bigger dynamic range.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Mind
  • Trying
  • Model

• If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Want
  • Yourself
  • Slavery

• The ultimate test on the way to establishing an ideal civilization encouraging ideal human behavior was to look bravely beyond gender, color, ethnic origin, religious difference, and class distinctions to discover and honor the value of each unique individual.

  

  Aberjhani
  • Value
  • Religious
  • Color

• While I was obsessed with my own misery, there were other things occurring in the human universe.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Universe

• I've always said fashion is like roast chicken: You don't have to think about it to know it's delicious.

  

  Alber Elbaz
  • Fashion

• I know a lot of you believe that most people in the news business are liberal. Let me tell you, I know a lot of them, and they were almost evenly divided this time. Half of them liked Senator Kerry; the other half hated President Bush.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• Fathers, I do not practice. I’m not religious in life, but when I perform 'The Creation of the World' and when my soul is touched by the confrontation of 'Good and Evil', then God enters in me.

  

  Marcel Marceau
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• I sent down a circular check to the office to be cashed-a check good for its face in any part of the world, as any ordinary ass would know-but the ass who was assifying for the Queen Anne Mansions on salary didn't know it; indeed I think that his assitude transcended any assfulness I have ever met in this world or elsewhere.

  

  Mark Twain
  • World
  • Good

• 'It might interest you to know that our state is tired of being used as a chemical toilet so that people in Utah can have plastic lawn furniture.' 'I can't believe an assistant attorney general came right out and said that.''Well, I wouldn't say it in public.'

  

  Neal Stephenson
  • People
  • Believe
  • Tired

• Finally Doug broke the stalemate and looked at Megan. "Thanks a lot," he said sarcastically. Then he yanked off his plastic gloves, tossed them at her feet, and stormed away. Finn let out a sigh as he gazed after his brother. "You know, my parents really should have stopped with me.

  

  Kate Brian
  • Brother
  • Should
  • Parent

• I believe in any kid's ability to read any book and form their own judgements. It's the job of a parent to guide his/her child through the reading of every book imaginable. Censorship of any form punishes curiosity.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Book