Sherman Alexie Quotes

Is God a man or a woman? God could be an armadillo. I have no idea.

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• You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Day
  • Singing
  • Cold

• After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Hope
  • Smile
  • Seeing

• Takers believe in a zero-sum world, and they end up creating one where bosses, colleagues and clients don't trust them. Givers build deeper and broader relationships - people are rooting for them instead of gunning for them.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• People underestimate the impact they can have on the process through contact with legislators. By being part of an organized group in an area that you have an interest in, you can multiply the impact of your own ideas.

  

  Ralph Regula
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Impact

• Especially with the predators, one of the things that gets these programs going on a local level is for our land management agencies to build partnerships with surrounding communities and landowners.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Management
  • Partnerships

• The most important message that I can give to you and to all the world is to keep the commandments of God.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • World
  • God
  • Important

• I certainly don't want our nation to go into default, but at the same time, I'm very concerned about our ongoing debt problem.

  

  Randy Hultgren
  • Time
  • Problem
  • Same

• My mother played the piano and my father the violin, I can remember my dad teaching me how to waltz; I had my feet on his, my mother playing the piano, and my husband will tell you the lessons weren't very successful.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Remember
  • Mother
  • Father

• I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Better
  • Ground
  • Holding

• I don't want to be an action star, an action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Life
  • Career
  • Action

• I speak French, German, English, and Dutch, and I can say a few words in Spanish - none of these languages have anything to do with Valyrian.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Words
  • English
  • Speak

• When I left Michigan and I came to New York, that was my goal, to be a professional dancer. And I sort of fell into singing by accident in a way.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Singing
  • Goal
  • Professional

• When you win a Grammy... you're thinking about you winning. It is amazing. Your peers and folks in the record business are saying, 'This is what we think of you.' And that's why the Grammy will always be, to me, the ultimate in what you get as far as a music trophy, because it is the one.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Why

• I've got to be honest and say that, growing up, I wasn't a big sports guy, but I love the camaraderie. I just love people getting together, fighting for a team and getting super-emotional about it.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • People
  • Up
  • Love

• It's always been hard trying to find the right pieces that go together, but it's always been something that interests me - finding new ways to be fashionable and cute but still being modest.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Trying
  • Together
  • Cute

• If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are we going to win?

  

  Randall Terry
  • Believe
  • Political
  • Moral

• American workers are the best in the world. They teach our children, care for our sick and elderly, build our communities, and much more.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • World
  • Children
  • American

• I'm aware that, from the outside, this looks like I've got quite an ego.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Looks
  • Ego

• We're all working hard, but so far away from what we actually want to be doing. We're all peering in at the window of a party we aren't invited to yet, a party we wouldn't know how to dress for, or what kind of conversation to make, even if we came as someone's guest.

  

  Lauren Graham
  • Party
  • Conversation
  • Window

• Performances are so defined by their venues - it'd be nice for the music to dictate more of the reaction.

  

  Anna Meredith
  • Music
  • Performances
  • Reaction

• It is necessary - secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Terror

• When one goes on to find "better", or "higher", or "truer", or "more enduring", or "more widely agreed upon" forms of beauty, what happens to our regard for the less good, less high, less true, less universal instances? Simone Weil says, "He who has gone farther, to the very beauty of the world itself, does not love them any less but much more deeply than before".

  

  Elaine Scarry
  • Love
  • Father
  • Beauty

• Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Ideas
  • Secret
  • Invention

• Is God a man or a woman? God could be an armadillo. I have no idea.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Ideas
  • Armadillos