Sherman Alexie Quotes
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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No amount of debt restructuring, even debt forgiveness, will help the Greeks achieve real prosperity. What they need is not short-term relief but, rather, a long-term cure.
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Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.
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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
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Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.
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Circumstances dictate your set of values, your set of morals.
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Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.
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Every woman who thinks she is the only victim of violence has to know that there are many more.
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Not a lot of people know me outside of athletics and believe it or not I am actually quite shy. The exhilaration of a win or tears after falling are the extremes. It takes me a while to get to know someone, but once I do I am very loyal to my old friends.
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This is a budget that does not protect the vulnerable, it doesn't protect the jobs of today and it doesn't create the jobs that we need for tomorrow.
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Everywhere I am folded, there I am a lie.
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I play golf - even though I'm awful at it.
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Here, the broader issues are already familiar, and discussion has focused at a more sophisticated and detailed level. Within the philosophy of mind, the problem of consciousness is no big news.
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I'm all about surprises. If you watch a horror movie, and it's called 'Kiss Land,' it's probably going to be the most terrifying thing you've ever seen in your life.
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I'm just enjoying my life at the moment.
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I never said that movies were struggling behind TV. I'm just saying that movies have a better creative cache.
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Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.
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I loved David Lean, he had a huge influence on me when I was going to film school.
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The only problem is whether one adds life to one's years or years to one's life.
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The Germans must be together.
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It is the soldier and the army, not parliamentary majorities and decisions, that have welded the German Empire together. I put my trust in the army.
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Listening is more important than talking. Just hit your mark and believe what you say. Just listen to people and react to what they are saying.
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Somebody dies and people eat your food. Funny how that works.
