Sherman Alexie Quotes
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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.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan understand that government does not create jobs. Entrepreneurs do.
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I was a huge 'Street Fighter' fan, and I actually still am. The only game I really was good at was 'Street Fighter.'
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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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.'
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My only personal time is a couple of hours in the gym in the morning.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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I think what's wrong with the fashion world, particularly men's fashion, is the lack of creativity behind it.
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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.
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Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?
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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.
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I don't know how you can justify leaving any engagement behind in the social Web of 2011.
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People with a mission to save the earth want the earth to seem worse than it is so their mission will look more important.
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Here files of pins extend their shining rows,Puffs, powders, patches, bibles, billet-doux.
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'Perfect competition' is considered both the ideal and the default state in Economics 101. So-called perfectly competitive markets achieve equilibrium when producer supply meets consumer demand.
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I'm very confident in my sexuality, and I really don't like talking about my romantic life in the press.
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When I was really sick, I loved watching 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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When you start talking about sacrifices, pretty soon people start feeling like chumps.
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People want to be in their own fashion tribes, so they want to wear the same clothes to be connected to everyone else in that tribe. But they want to be different from other tribes.
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You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.
