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?

Sherman Alexie

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• I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Love
  • You
  • Just

• I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Time
  • Done
  • Thought

• I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Friends
  • American
  • Government

• 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.

  

  Callie Thorne
  • Together
  • You
  • Player

• Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.

  

  Karl Barth
  • God
  • Alone
  • Confidence

• 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.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Want
  • Face
  • France

• I crave attention and adventure.

  

  Eddie Cibrian
  • Attention
  • Adventure
  • Crave

• Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.

  Ford Frick
  • Work
  • Remember
  • Respect

• I always tell young athletes the same thing, 'Wherever you go, whatever you do, what must your top priority be? Running.'

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • You
  • Running
  • Young

• I'm evangelical.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Evangelical

• 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.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Athlete
  • Race
  • Seen

• 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.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • People
  • Me
  • Learn

• I was lucky that I got to do films in between seasons of 'Chuck.'

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Lucky
  • Got
  • Seasons

• 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.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Important
  • Responsibility
  • Moral

• I have too many responsibilities and principles. There's no time for 'guilty' pleasures.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Time
  • Guilty
  • Principles

• Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?

  

  Cal Thomas
  • Freedom
  • Honor
  • Lonely

• It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Beginning
  • Violence

• Sitting on the airplane seat today, I was thinking - I have been in different cities every week. Most of the time, it's because of golf tournaments. But occasionally, I also attend various events. All of a sudden, I feel like I am a business woman. Although sometimes I feel tired, I do enjoy this kind of life.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Life
  • Time
  • Different

• Let me say this: I have said, any time, if it's Martin Mull, I will say yes. If it's Christopher Guest, I will say yes.

  

  Fred Willard
  • Time

• When we come together and appreciate each other, that's always a positive thing; a step in the right direction. That is what the NAACP Image Awards do. If we can just come together and love each other, that's important. I do feel like there's a lack of love but oddly enough, we blame the lack of love on other people not loving and appreciating our accomplishments. But the real reality is we haven't loved and appreciated our own accomplishments.

  

  Ernie Hudson
  • Love
  • Step
  • Awards

• I think the World Trade Center should be rebuilt as the World Trade Center, only stronger and one story taller. I hate what they're doing with the World Trade Center site.

  

  Donald Trump
  • World
  • Hate

• I don't feel superior because I think there's no God. Actually, I would love to be able to go, 'Well, the world hasn't been kind to me, but there's something good around the corner, because the Man has a plan.' I wish I believed that. There's wonderful comfort in that.

  

  Liam Cunningham
  • World
  • Good
  • God

• The world changed on September 11, 2001.

  

  Christopher Dodd
  • World
  • September

• 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?

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • World
  • Feelings
  • Drinking