Sherman Alexie Quotes
You can't sustain anger. You become bitter. Nothing's going to change. Anger leads to resentment, then to spiking your orange juice, then to martyrdom.
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You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.
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I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling.
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I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.
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Let people have an education and you can't stop them.
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I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I came from a southern Ohio steel town, and it's a town that's really struggling in a lot of ways, ways that are indicative of the broader struggles of America's working class.
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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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I always wanted to be more validated as a human being, as a person, than I was as a player. I think that was a really hard balance for me.
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Music was my one way to vent.
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It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended.
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We will have to embark on a change so radical, a revolution so quiet and yet so total, that it will go far beyond the programme for a parliament.
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After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.
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They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin. Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It’s absurd.
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Our only hope for tomorrow is peace now.
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Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did.
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I always wear high heels - I simply feel naked without them.
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They don't call me spontaneous and irreverant for nothing.
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Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people.
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I just wanted to write the songs. I never wanted to sing them.
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When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in which one does not at least deny himself some trifle is badly spent and a threat to the day following.
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The internet is just a scary place. It's better to just go to the doctor. Don't let Google get inside your head. It will do bad things to you.
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I know that there is one additional thing that I've learned and that is that what Harvard does and says has an enormous resonance that goes beyond Zip code 02138.
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It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
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I never met a bitter person who was thankful. Or a thankful person who was bitter.
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You can't sustain anger. You become bitter. Nothing's going to change. Anger leads to resentment, then to spiking your orange juice, then to martyrdom.
