Sherman Alexie Quotes

I know a lot about being white - because I have to, I live in the white world. A white person doesn't live in the Indian world. I have to be white every day.

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• If you are hopeful, if you are optimistic, other people want to help you. And if you are down in the dumps, other people may still help you, but I've noticed that they're walking, not running, over to you.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • May
  • Help

• I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Mind
  • Doubt
  • Regret

• So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.

  

  Callie Thorne
  • Together
  • You
  • Player

• I'd studied English literature at university, but I was also far more enamored with Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and James Joyce. That was my passion.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Passion
  • English
  • Literature

• I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.

  

  Patrick Murray
  • Bad
  • Me
  • First

• I'm often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I'm glad I didn't go, because if I had I wouldn't have my extended family, which is the fabric of my life. Only recently have I realised how special and unusual it is.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Life
  • Family
  • Regret

• Some of them, in accepting the proposed plan of government, coupled their acceptance with a recommendation of various additions to the Constitution, which they deemed essential to the preservation of the rights of the States, or of the People.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • People
  • Government
  • Acceptance

• Much of India that we dream of still lies ahead of us: housing, power, water and sanitation for all; bank accounts and insurance for every citizen; connected and prosperous villages; and, smart and sustainable cities.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Power
  • Dream
  • Water

• The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Age
  • Best
  • Spirit

• Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • May
  • Day
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• The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

  

  Claude Levi-Strauss

• Anybody who says they don't like fighting in the NHL have to be out of their minds.

  

  Donald Stewart Cherry
  • Fighting

• My government's first aim will be to bring peace to Mexico.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
  • Peace

• The Republican majority will stop at nothing to prevent access to the legal system for those who are hurt.

  

  Joe Baca
  • Stop
  • Hurt

• I love working at Marvel, but it was definitely DC that got me hooked as a reader.

  

  Jason Aaron

• There's a way of dealing with hardships that are healthier than going out. That's what I've learned.

  

  Lindsay Lohan

• I get a ton of scam emails. But instead of deleting them, I decided to hit reply.

  

  James Veitch

• It's about polarization. You're trying to stir up something in your audience.

  

  Leslie Odom, Jr.
  • Up
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• It's nice when people approach you to help.

  

  Aida Turturro
  • People
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  • Nice

• Eroticism is born at a time in civilisation when sexual instinct becomes deanimalised and enriched with contributions from art and from literature. A world of theatricality emerges around the act of love.

  

  Mario Vargas Llosa
  • Time
  • World
  • Art

• People everywhere in the world have Russian connections. There is nothing wrong with having Russian connections as long as you're transparent about it.

  

  Kersti Kaljulaid
  • People
  • World
  • Long

• Women's particular experiences continue to shape not just their points of view but their actions, in the United States and around the world.

  

  Dee Dee Myers
  • World
  • Women

• To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves... The modern world in comparison, ignores it.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • Friendship
  • Humans

• I know a lot about being white - because I have to, I live in the white world. A white person doesn't live in the Indian world. I have to be white every day.

  

  Sherman Alexie
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