Sherman Alexie Quotes
Drinking would shut down my seeing and my hearing and my feeling," she used to say. "Why would I want to be in the world if I couldn't touch the world with all of my senses intact?
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.
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Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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I crave attention and adventure.
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
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I always tell young athletes the same thing, 'Wherever you go, whatever you do, what must your top priority be? Running.'
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I'm evangelical.
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.
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I was lucky that I got to do films in between seasons of 'Chuck.'
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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I have too many responsibilities and principles. There's no time for 'guilty' pleasures.
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Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?
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White liberals face this cognitive dissonance: if they decide that America is ready for a black president and back Obama, they would also be forced to surrender or at least modify decades of convictions about American bias.
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Having removed the dictator, the allies have moved to put Iraqis in control of Iraq. Now, as they draft and ratify their Constitution, we will indeed see the character of a new Iraqi nation revealed through the principles it chooses to uphold.
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I care far more how humanity lives than how long. Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For the species, as for each man, mere longevity seems to me a contemptible ideal.
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Wicked people sometimes perform good actions. I suppose they wish to see if this gives as great a feeling of pleasure as the virtuous claim for it.
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Drinking would shut down my seeing and my hearing and my feeling," she used to say. "Why would I want to be in the world if I couldn't touch the world with all of my senses intact?
