Sherman Alexie Quotes
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Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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Women are wonderful, but they get so caught up about their body. We need to unhook from worrying so much. When I don't feel good, I look in the mirror and think I look fat and miserable. But when I feel good and whole, I'm not worried about my body because I'm living in it. It doesn't become an object.
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Individuals should think about the worst-case scenarios and plan for them. The world will be crazier than you think it will be. Put money away, and then you can live with much more freedom.
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It's a very good historical book about history.
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There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
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I am musical and I enjoy theatre, but I never wanted to just do theatre. I always wanted to go into film. I love film. I loved growing up in the theatre, but I always wanted to do film all along. But, I still pursue music separately.
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The basic right to quality and affordable health care is under assault by Donald Trump and Republicans in Washington.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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I am not interested in producing fiction for Indian television at all, the reason being that I don't understand the medium. I can be a judge or a host; I can do that as an individual. But to produce TV content, you have to know the game.
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The alliance in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the most important developments on the contemporary political scene.
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AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.
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I have deep emotions about the American people. If I were to cry for anything, I would cry for them and the policies that they're about to face.
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A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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The thought of somebody pulling and cutting around my face gives me stomach ache. Plastic surgery would be so painful. What if it doesn't look good? What if they made a mistake? I couldn't do it.
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The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.
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Winning the Oscar was like winning all the prizes in one single night that I never won as a kid.
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The interpretation of dreams is a great art.
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Our Strategic Petroleum Reserve is there for a natural disaster or some other catastrophe.
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I am the despair of my accountant; I am the plastic bags of receipts.
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Good words are worth much, and cost little.
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I believe the important thing is to continue to create new experiences. That's why so many retired people travel. New experiences raise our consciousness and stimulate cognition. Retirement offers the opportunity to learn new things, and that is what keeps you young, at heart at least.
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Writing is a lonely business.
