Sherman Alexie Quotes
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You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
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I remember actually liking a girl in high school who was kind of an outcast and weird, and people made fun of her. I remember hanging out with her, but I was apprehensive about telling anyone I really liked her.
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I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
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I start my day with granola, fresh fruit, and skim milk and end it with something healthy that also comes from my own kitchen.
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My general taste is towards the melancholy.
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Man knows much more than he understands.
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Ninety-nine people out of a hundred have not seriously considered what they mean by the term 'exist' nor how a thing qualifies itself to be labelled real.
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Clarice: proposing to Toni I'll be your lawyer if you'll be my accountant.
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To hinder, besides, the farmer from selling his goods at all times to the best market, is evidently to sacrifice the ordinary laws of justice to an idea of public utility, to a sort of reasons of state; an act of legislative authority which ought to be exercised only, which can be pardoned only in cases of the most urgent necessity.
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South America was not really that open - you had to fit in, and I didn't fit in. I was different - my tastes, my point of view - were a bit weird, and I found in Britain a sense of calm, that I could just be.
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Some women have said, 'Gee, here I am getting involved with this fat guy, what will people think of me?' But they were converted and sometimes surprised.
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Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate.
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I try to stay aggressive for the most part, dictating, whatever the situation may be. Just trying to do whatever I can to help the team win.
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I think a nice romantic dinner should be saved for when you and the girl you're dating or seeing have something special and it's a more special occasion.
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Everybody in New York is looking for something. Once in a while, somebody finds it.
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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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One of the things that will decline over time is the demand that the society or the government bring forth a particularized racial remedy based on a history of deprivation. That will be even more difficult to do in the future.
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Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captures the essence of the human spirit. Story, in all its forms—of life, of love, of knowledge—has traced the upward surge of mankind. And story, you mark my words, will be with the last human to draw breath.
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My mum is my beauty icon, because she represents what I think beauty is.
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You need to be ahead of the game just enough so that you can have what people want in the shops when they want it.
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It's become impossible to enjoy most quality television shows because the hurt or endangered women device is so frequently used.
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We tell ourselves that the more time we have at our disposal, the more opportunity we will have of finding greater happiness. But again we are looking to the future, to the times we will create. Again we miss the enjoyment of the present moment.
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What inspires a poem for me is usually a moment.
