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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• 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

• 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

• 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

• When I'm playing in the band, I'm sweating - giving 120 percent.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • Giving
  • Band

• I think the dark psychology of human beings is very interesting as an artist.

  

  Du Yun
  • Interesting
  • Dark
  • Psychology

• Paul Giamatti is truly one of my biggest inspirations, and even more so now that I've gotten to work with him. Every single thing he does, he completely transforms into it. When I watch a film with Paul in it, I'm not like, 'Oh, there's Paul.' I'm completely into whatever character he's in, and I'm not thinking about him as an actor.

  

  Condola Rashad
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Character

• There can be many different views of what Heaven is like, because Heaven is whatever makes each person eternally and fully happy.

  

  Mattie Stepanek
  • Different
  • Happy
  • Heaven

• Most of us yearn for really intimate, healthy, in-person relationships. People have a deep desire to be understood, to be told that it's OK, that you're not isolated and broken, that this is part of the human challenge, and that there is hope. The capacity for online interactions to do that is powerful.

  

  Ze Frank
  • People
  • Hope
  • Desire

• A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children

• American workers are the best in the world. They teach our children, care for our sick and elderly, build our communities, and much more.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • World
  • Children
  • American

• I believe that when you provide information to people, they become less fearful and they will engage more in their democracy if they are empowered with information.

  

  Michael Moore
  • Believe
  • Democracy
  • Information

• 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