Sherman Alexie Quotes

We all have to find our own ways to say good-bye.

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• Slack users I know, including me, love many things about the service. As the company likes to brag, it's fast, it's transparent, and it's great for brainstorming.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Great
  • Love
  • Service

• When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • She
  • Mother

• That term, 'David and Goliath,' has entered our language as a metaphor for improbable victories by some weak party over someone far stronger.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Party
  • Language
  • Stronger

• The scene that has raised the most objections in 'The Interview' is at the very end, when Kim's head dissolves into flames. To me, it feels gratuitous.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Me
  • End
  • Scene

• My head's never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch 'CSI' or 'Law & Order,' where I have to follow the crime. If I can't turn my head off during that, I know I've really got a problem.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Law
  • Problem

• My music is best understood by children and animals.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Music
  • Children
  • Best

• I don't think about the press or the crowds or the other leaders of the race. The focus is only on myself. As soon as I see the targets, I tune them out.

  

  Magdalena Neuner
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Focus

• The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Music
  • Way

• In terms of me being a Christian, going to Israel was really cool. Going to the West Bank, Bethlehem, floating in the Dead Sea - that was great for me.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Great
  • Cool
  • Christian

• I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Never

• If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • Job
  • Want

• I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Thinking
  • Growth
  • Environmental

• My parents made certain I had no illusions about acting. To them, it was always just a job.

  

  Sam Robards
  • Job
  • Parents
  • Acting

• I'm sponsored by Audi, so I have this rather lovely rather arrangement where they just insist that I'm always in the latest model.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Always
  • Model
  • Lovely

• Mother Nature made me the way I am, and I should be happy.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • Happy
  • Mother
  • Nature

• You don't cruise the Internet looking for your name and walk away with a good feeling. So, I never do it.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Internet

• I know what it means to do a job... I worked in a factory. I respect people in the service industry. What irritates me more is when people aren't respectful. There's a lot of nonsense behavior, especially in a place like Hollywood. The money, the power, they create little monsters.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • People
  • Money
  • Job

• I hate the word sexy.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Hate
  • Sexy
  • Word

• You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Heart

• A sober, devout man will interpret 'God's will' soberly and devoutly. A fanatic, with bloodshot mind, will interpret 'God's will' fanatically. Men of extreme, illogical views will interpret 'God's will' in eccentric fashion. Kindly, charitable, generous men will interpret 'God's will' according to their character.

  

  E. Haldeman-Julius
  • God
  • Men
  • Mind

• The average woman must inevitably view her actual husband with a certain disdain; he is anything but her ideal. In consequence, she cannot help feeling that her children are cruelly handicapped by the fact that he is their father.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Children
  • She
  • Help

• The King plays a most important part in the endgame, and gains in power and activity as the number of pieces on the board diminishes. Acting in eight different directions, he becomes, instead of the weakest piece, one of the most formidable units.

  

  Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
  • King
  • Activity
  • Directions

• A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Way
  • Find

• We all have to find our own ways to say good-bye.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Way