Sherman Alexie Quotes
Like officer Dave.He's never said much about his life, but I can tell he's scarred. And he knows I'm scarred too. The wounded always recognize the wounded. We can smell each other.
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In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.
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Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.
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The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.
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When I come home, it's about my kid, who needs to eat, needs to do homework, and needs to get to basketball. I don't have a lot of time to think about me.
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I've always been someone who some people like and some people don't like.
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The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
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It's kind of nice to play somebody that isn't psychotic or half-machine or dead or dying or on a spaceship somewhere.
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I have always been infatuated with country music.
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Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?
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Tony Blair is a war criminal, and I think he should be tried as a war criminal. Then I see Bono and him as pals, and I'm going, 'I don't like that.' Do I think George Bush is a war criminal? Probably - but the difference between him and Tony Blair is that Blair is intelligent. So, he has no excuse.
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In 'The Serpent's Egg,' I created a Berlin which no one recognized, not even I.
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When you're a kid, and you grow up, it takes some time for people to associate you with more things other than that initial thing.
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You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.
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I'm inspired when I find out about something that I didn't know was a remake. An example is, of course, stuff like 'The Fly,' or 'The Thing,' or even 'The Blob.' For our generation, all those things, whether it was 'The Blob' or 'The Fly' or something else, we had no idea they were remakes.
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We have no vital national interest in Syria's civil war.
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The great lesson I get from 'Moby-Dick' is that when the times are bad, when there is great foreboding, there are still ways to go about living. It's through Ishmael that I find a kind of overall cosmic approach to a meaningful life in this meaningless world.
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Fabo is a real rock star, but people look over it, so I'll try to bring it to the light if I can.
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They smell of all the baths they didnt take. The trouble with China is, there are too many chinks here.
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Like officer Dave.He's never said much about his life, but I can tell he's scarred. And he knows I'm scarred too. The wounded always recognize the wounded. We can smell each other.
