Sherman Alexie Quotes

I didn't know what to say to her. What do you say to people when they ask how it feels to lose everything? When every planet in your solar system has exploded?

Sherman Alexie

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• It's funny because when I'm outside Australia, I never get to do my Australian accent in anything. It's always a Danish accent or an English accent or an American accent.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • American
  • Funny
  • English

• We don't really think that much about what we do; it's just fun.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Just

• I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Trying

• If you want a strong society, it has to be inclusive. If you have to push a boulder up a hill, do you want 10 people or 100? If you weed out colour or gender, you get 10.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • People
  • Up
  • Society

• If I came across a role that is completely mainstream and commercial, but it's the right one, I'd jump at the chance.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Chance
  • Jump
  • Role

• If I had to pick one social action I could encourage all my friends, family and fans to do, it would be to teach a child. One, to educate them about good music, but two, because that kind of relationship helps build a bond. When you share music with somebody, that then becomes your link to them. Music is what connects a lot of us, over borders.

  

  Aloe Blacc
  • Good
  • Music
  • Family

• Got ants in my pants and I need to dance, so big fine mama, come give me a chance.

  

  James Brown
  • Giving
  • Dance
  • Chance

• Tax increases aren't the answer. It would remove income from Americans' pockets, slow or stagnate job creation, and potentially lead to an overall economic downturn.

  

  Dan Burton
  • Job
  • Answer
  • Tax

• I had no idea of being a star, all I knew was that I wanted to be a great actress, I wanted to work as an actress. So I thought the way I would be a great actress was to sing and dance first. Lay a foundation - get my foot in the door, and then undoubtedly, of course, I would be offered great roles as soon as I grew up enough to handle them.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• Questions are like the knocks of beggarmen, and should not be minded.

  

  Flann O'Brien
  • Questions
  • Minded
  • Beggarmem

• If you have fame, you never feel that you have fame, if you have the brains of a flea. Because fame is something that's over back of you. It ain't ahead.... Not ahead at all. I mean, if you've done it that's great, but "what are you going to do now?" is the only thing that matters.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Great
  • Done
  • Fame

• Beginning of all knowledge comes from humility.

  

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
  • Knowledge
  • Beginning
  • Humility

• Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.

  

  Alban Berg
  • Music
  • Feeling
  • Knowledge

• Never settle for second when first is available

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Firsts
  • Available
  • Settling

• From the beginning of time, we've had financial crises. People always blame the banks and for good reason. When you look for the root causes, they're almost always failed government policies.

  

  Henry Paulson
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• What I know for sure is this: You are built not to shrink down to less, but to blossom into more. To be more extraordinary. To use every moment to fill yourself up.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Up
  • Built
  • Blossom

• I'm not one of those people who writes a biography or tries to figure out what kind of ice cream the character liked when he was 10.

  

  Miguel Ferrer
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Biographies

• Can't you recognize the human in the inhuman?

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Humans
  • Inhuman

• I don't feel like singing should be taken lightly. It's one of the hardest things I've ever done, but it's coming along.

  

  Wesley Borland Big Dumb Face
  • Done
  • Taken
  • Singing

• Can a sparrow know how a stork feels?

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Feels
  • Sparrow
  • Stork

• It is hard to know if what you are going to do in life is up to you, or a sum of the contribution of others, plus the circumstances you are born into.

  

  Carlos Machado
  • Life
  • Knows
  • Born

• I didn't know what to say to her. What do you say to people when they ask how it feels to lose everything? When every planet in your solar system has exploded?

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Feels
  • Knows
  • Asks