Sherman Alexie Quotes
Like any good shaman, professional baseball player, or politician, my mother always answered questions with questions.
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My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
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I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
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Football was what I was good at, and it was what I loved.
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I think we have to secure our borders and make sure that people coming in are coming here not to do us harm.
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Education in general, and higher education in particular, is on the brink of a huge disruption. Two big questions, which were once so well-settled that we ceased asking them, are now up for grabs. What should young people be learning? And what sorts of credentials indicate they're ready for the workforce?
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It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich.
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I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.
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My family is a middle-class family. When I grew up and learned how much it actually cost for us to play hockey, I could not believe that my parents let us play as long as they did.
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This is one Hart that you will not leave in San Francisco.
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I just saw metal as another tool for me to use.
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Women are so necessary for us in terms of support.
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Æschylus: High thoughts must have high language. (rewritten and embellished tr. Fitts 1955, p. 108)
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Lois: Good coffee, huh?Emma: Lois, I think you're a very attractive woman and I'd like to sleep with you.Lois: chokes Gak! Ahem! You don't - coff - fool around, do you?Emma: No, but I'd like to.
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All too soon will Childhood gay Realise Life's sober sadness. Let's be merry while we may, Innocent and happy Fay! Elves were made for gladness!
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There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.
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In addition to needed gun control reforms, America urgently needs a stronger protest movement dedicated to reducing the glorification of violence in our culture - in music, film, television, video games, and even the Internet.
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When you're onstage in theater, if you mess up a line, there's no 'Cut! We'll get it again.' It's full steam ahead.
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Always be listening and learning.
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If people in this country think of Africa as a place with kids and flies swarming around their heads, then they won't understand that these people are you and you are them.
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In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.
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I heard Cher say, 'I answer to two people: Myself and God.' I say, 'I only answer to me. I'm not sure I appreciate God's opinion.'
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We're pursuing a strategic partnership with Afghanistan on the case of the United States and Afghanistan where we're going to push toward a future. It is the future that the Afghans desire with the United States. It is a future that the Afghans desire with the international community and we desire that as well.
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If you're a single man and you happen to be in this business, you're deemed a player. But I don't see myself as a ladies' man.
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Like any good shaman, professional baseball player, or politician, my mother always answered questions with questions.
