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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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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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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In the web products and services world, you have a real-time interaction with your customers, and then a real-time editing of how you as a company are doing.
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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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There's this element of surprise when you're writing songs, like it's something outside of you that you get to be part of. And it's just exciting. And that's why I keep writing - because I like that feeling.
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In 'The Serpent's Egg,' I created a Berlin which no one recognized, not even I.
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I think there's a certain space people have decided I occupy - the funny-sidekick thing.
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I love coming to London and seeing what people on the street are wearing.
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I've never been a movie buff. If I did go to a theatre to watch a film, half the time, I would fall asleep.
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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.
