Sherman Alexie Quotes
There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons.
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When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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You try to pull away the experiences until you get to the core of humanity, and you find that light that exists in everybody. It's that light that I'm searching for in all of my work - is that connective thing, that ether that enters all of us - you know what I mean? That's a part of God.
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I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.
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I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally.
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Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
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The cool thing about my show and me is that I'm a writer, and I'm a writer first if I don't have music.
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I'm not a team sports person type person, so I probably would have been good at tennis, because I like tennis. But my parents really didn't push me. I think if my parents would have guided me and stay committed, I could have played any sport I wanted to, but I never did.
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Vince Vaughn is a genuine person, awesome guy. He'll come to a lot of my shows. It's not that often that you can meet someone as cool as Vince.
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2) Never fire a laser at a mirror.
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I've never gotten cash out of a machine. I use my credit cards, so I don't need to do that.
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There are three things that people pick up on the instant they walk into your home on Thanksgiving. They will be able to feel the human energy. They'll smell the food. And they will see, instantly, the table.
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I love to prune. I have a physical need to do things.
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Freedom is... not to be bound by my wounds. And to be able to eat cake every day.
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I collect movies. So I have all those in binders. I don't have the DVDs out. I put them in binders.
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When two human beings get together, they're co-present, there is built into it a certain responsibility we have for each other, and when people are co-present in family relationships and other relationships, that responsibility is there. You can't just turn off a person. On the Internet, you can.
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Ever doubt that God answers your prayers? Pray (sincerely) for humility... and watch what happens.
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I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.
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Brevity is the soul of wit.
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We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn't a matter of political correctness. It's a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.
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There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons.
