Sherman Alexie Quotes

You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.

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• I was never conscious that I was becoming an icon or I'm not an icon, because my family, my kids, my husband keep me down-to-earth.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Earth

• The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Winning
  • Beauty
  • Greatest

• Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan understand that government does not create jobs. Entrepreneurs do.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Government
  • Understand
  • Ryan

• I was a huge 'Street Fighter' fan, and I actually still am. The only game I really was good at was 'Street Fighter.'

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Good
  • Game
  • Street

• I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Like
  • Film
  • Happens

• I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, 'No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.'

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • House
  • Stop

• My only personal time is a couple of hours in the gym in the morning.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • Time
  • Morning
  • Couple

• Education in general, and higher education in particular, is on the brink of a huge disruption. Two big questions, which were once so well-settled that we ceased asking them, are now up for grabs. What should young people be learning? And what sorts of credentials indicate they're ready for the workforce?

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Up
  • Education

• Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • Time
  • Fear

• I'm a bad interview because I want to always feel like I'm being totally honest, but at the same time, I'm absolutely paranoid. That combination results in a lot of spaces.

  

  Gale Harold
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Want

• I grew up being into sports and I wasn't trained to move my body in the right way for dancing. I'm the last one to get any moves correct. In rehearsals it's always, 'OK, one more take for Zac.'

  

  Zac Efron
  • Up
  • Sports
  • Body

• I think what's wrong with the fashion world, particularly men's fashion, is the lack of creativity behind it.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • World
  • Men
  • Fashion

• The Tamil industry, while being better than all the other film industries when it comes to treating female actors, is still dominated by men. So, I can only work within the space offered to heroines, and I think I am doing that.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Work
  • Men
  • Space

• Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?

  

  Rand Paul
  • Government
  • Own
  • Restaurant

• I don't think policy makers surprise unnecessarily. You don't pick surprise as a part of your policy. Markets value a certain amount of predictability. But there are certain areas where surprise is a tool.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Think
  • Value
  • Surprise

• I don't know how you can justify leaving any engagement behind in the social Web of 2011.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • You
  • Know
  • Leaving

• People with a mission to save the earth want the earth to seem worse than it is so their mission will look more important.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Important
  • Earth

• Here files of pins extend their shining rows,Puffs, powders, patches, bibles, billet-doux.

  

  Vanity

• I have quite a collection of ironic band T shirts.

  

  Andrea Riseborough
  • Band
  • Ironic

• You can be standing right in front of the truth and not necessarily see it, and people only get it when they’re ready to get it.

  

  George Harrison The Beatles
  • People
  • Truth

• I felt very special in Paris, more special than I felt in London. I love London for different reasons. I've always been close to London, being English. But somehow, there's something special about living as an Englishwoman in Paris.

  

  Charlotte Rampling
  • Different
  • English
  • Paris

• 'Duch' means spirit and 'ovny' is kind of the adjectival ending, so the word itself means spiritual. It's my father's name, obviously. He took the 'H' out because he was tired of people saying Duchovny, but he never did it legally. When my parents divorced, my mother, to my father, put the 'H' back in.

  

  David Duchovny
  • People
  • Mother
  • Father

• Trust comes before strength, and it becomes a conduit of influence. Your strength is a little bit threatening before people trust you.

  

  Amy Cuddy
  • People
  • Trust

• You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • People
  • Knows
  • Speak