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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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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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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I like to entertain in all aspects. When you're with somebody and you're out, you want to be entertained. I like to be around entertaining people. Even if they're bored, and you're in a convalescent home, there's something entertaining about that, in a way.
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The external appearance of any construction projects that are created during the time of the National Socialist Reich must take on the sensibility of our time.
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Decaffeinated coffee is kind of like kissing your sister.
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Moviemakers are rewarded with tax write-offs if, when seeking a location that looks like America, they seek it in America.
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I turned into a monk when my mother went to learn Buddhism in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I used to roam around with a begging bowl and ask for food.
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On the third day after someone dies, the soul comes back to settle scores. In my mother's case, this would be the first day of the lunar new year. And because it is the new year, all debts must be paid, or disaster and misfortune will follow.
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A good player who is a great putter is a match for any golfer. A great hitter who cannot putt is a match for no one.
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Like any good shaman, professional baseball player, or politician, my mother always answered questions with questions.
