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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Los Angeles is a city of few hard targets. Its iconic buildings are private spaces, mostly residential, visible by invitation only or in the pages of a Taschen book. Its central industry is as mirage-like as the projection of light on a screen.
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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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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
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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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And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes.
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Terrorism is escalating to the point that Americans soon may have to choose between civil liberties and more intrusive means of protection.
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Sometimes I forget what I put in. I want to capture things in that way, where you're looking into your memory, a dream or hallucination. The characters become a mixture of archetypes, and that's what I like. You're trying to figure it out and your brain wants to categorize things, but it can't because of this motion. You want to solve the problem, but it never gets solved. It's like when you read a really good book and the story never leaves you.
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“I'll believe it if I see it" for dogs translates to "I'll believe it if I smell it." So don't bother yelling at them; it's the energy and scent they pay attention to, not your words.
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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.
