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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Not a lot of people get to go to the Olympics - especially with the chance I've got.
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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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I think protecting your family and giving to them is so important. It's the most important achievement.
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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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Too many couples break up without understanding the consequences for their families.
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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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You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.
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For comedians, we're all kind of tweeting our thoughts instead of spending time developing them. You can gauge how good a joke might be by how many times it gets retweeted, but it takes discipline to go back through the tweets and then develop jokes from them.
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I was lucky. My parents and teachers provided me with a wonderful and secure childhood where I always knew I was loved, valued, and listened to.
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People like to hear me say, 'You love me, Chandler Bing. You just don't know you love me.'
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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.
