Sherman Alexie Quotes
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What I really enjoy the most is seeing what the crowd likes. I enjoy making people laugh.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.
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I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.
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Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
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Even if I tried to fill up the stadium in Ramat Gan, I don't think I could.
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If you want to play the good roles, spend more time in in college and in acting class than you do in the gym, and you'll have the career you want.
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Make yourself necessary to somebody.
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The United States and the Obama administration have consistently opposed the delegitimation of Israel. We've also consistently pushed for legitimation of Israel across the U.N. system. We uniformly oppose one-sided actions designed to punish Israel, and we will continue to do so.
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It's better to get the nutrients for healthy skin from food, not supplements. Salmon, walnuts, blueberries, spinach... lots of my favorite foods happen to be amazing for skin too.
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Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
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I just don't think that I trust men. That's the problem. I can appreciate a beautiful-looking man, but he's not my type.
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My focus is always on the day. What I've done behind me, I try to have respect for it, and keep an eye on it, and make sure it isn't abused, and obviously be thoughtful about it, because it's all real to me. I'm basically in every band I ever was in, and the songs, I still mean them all.
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A woman is like a teabag. You can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
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I like to hunt. We went to a nuclear power and hunted in the woods next to it. I got a 34-point rabbit in there. We always go at night. It's easier. All the critters glow in the dark out there.
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Physically plain people are perfectly able to see physical beauty in others, while people who are morally maimed are blind to goodness and decency. They honestly think it doesn't exist.Oh, they know it exists all right. They just never know which people have it.
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Tahiti is very far away, and I knew that I should never see it again. A chapter of my life was closed, and I felt a little nearer to inevitable death.
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What, without asking, hither hurried Whence? And, without asking, Whither hurried hence! Oh, many a Cup of this forbidden Wine Must drown the memory of that insolence!
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Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.
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You can get ahead in the world. But you will have to work, you will have to want tremendously to accomplish something, and then be willing to pay the price. Are you willing?
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In the end, I want to be able to say, 'My life was what I made it.'
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In a real-world way, my gifts are very limited in terms of what I can do.
