Sherman Alexie Quotes
Estranged from the tribe that gives no protection, What happens to the soul that hates its reflection?
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I really, really enjoy comedy. I think that's one of my strong suits. It's my zone. And people don't expect it from me, which is a whammy.
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Actually, the camera was never overhead at any time. It was always a side view of me. Subsequently, after the picture was released, I saw some scenes from above and my clothes being pulled-and I think that was added later.
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We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
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It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.
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I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.
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War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
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For over ten years I always had, but I don't speak English.
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I was fat, and that was awful because when you're young and sensitive, you think the world is over because you're fat.
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In the human lung, there are millions of air foils, just like aeroplane wings, which facilitate normal breathing.
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I knew I could never be an actor as a man. It just doesn't work, you know? And so when I was doing drag, I realized I could do that kind of stuff, and then when I was transitioning, I kind of gave up on the whole thing because I didn't think that this time would ever come, you know?
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Human beings cannot endure emptiness and desolation; they will fill the vacuum by creating a new focus of meaning. The idols of fundamentalism are not good substitutes for God; if we are to create a vibrant new faith for the twenty-first century, we should, perhaps, ponder the history of God for some lessons and warnings.
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Cannot keep you out my brain
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'The law is an expression of God's holy will and as such must be honored and loved,' said the preacher piously. 'Rubbish,' said the Master. 'The law is a necessary evil and as such must be cut down to the barest minimum. Show me a lover of the law and I will show you a muttonheaded tyrant.'
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L'accent est l'âme du discours.
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I think I'm a pretty average person, and I respond to positive things, so I write for myself.
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I crave deadlines. If I don't have a deadline, I become a total slacker, which is why I always have so much on my plate.
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The maxims of men reveal their characters.
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What you bring to the stage is what you are in real life... people sense that.
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[ on the "tropicalization" of intellectual property laws ] To make the digital world join in the samba.
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I hate that tabloid idea of anybody who is famous having to forfeit their privacy.
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Things have no hold on the soul. They have no access to it, cannot move or direct it. It is moved and directed by itself alone. It takes the things before it and interprets them as it sees fit. (Hays translation)
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As a former EPA administrator under a Republican president, I recognize that it is easy to hate regulations in general. After all, regulatory action causes people to spend money or change behavior, often to solve problems they do not believe exist.
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If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name.
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Estranged from the tribe that gives no protection, What happens to the soul that hates its reflection?
