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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It's true I have a hard time with the notion of creating a character. And I feel it's a limit. I'm always really impressed by actors who are able to construct a character, like Johnny Depp.
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You can be a doctor and I’ll still help you. You can be an engineer and I can help you. You can be a scientist and I’ll help you, whoever you are because I am not helping anything else. I am helping you! Peace on this Earth doesn’t begin by great ideas. Peace on Earth begins with you.
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What you remember saves you.
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Don't give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.
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When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.
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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?
