Sherman Alexie Quotes

The people who loved me when I was seven years old love my books, and the people who didn't like me when I was seven years old don't like my books.

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• I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.

  

  Naomi Scott
  • Home
  • Song
  • Community

• I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Life
  • Work
  • Home

• I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing.

  

  Gavrilo Princip
  • Why
  • Son
  • Regret

• German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Literature
  • First
  • German

• Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Mistakes
  • Capitalism

• Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Up
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  • Ideas

• I've got a 1990 Porsche 911. It's just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Simple
  • Like
  • Thing

• We want to be two-way players; that's the best thing.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Want
  • Best
  • Players

• Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.

  

  Dan Millman
  • God
  • Money
  • Energy

• People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.

  

  Vernon Howard
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  • Follow

• Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
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  • You
  • Pressure

• Everything can be going well, but if I'm not writing, I'm not happy. When I'm writing well, I'm like a different person.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Happy

• When I was younger and first started watching MTV I loved watching TRL. I loved watching my favorite singers/bands perform.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • First
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• There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Truth
  • Understand
  • Stars

• I work out in a studio. Every day, regardless where I am, at least two hours. I need it. I can't cease it.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Work
  • Studio

• If only the people around you know you're an artist, then you're doing something wrong.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • People
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  • Artist

• Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Life
  • Work
  • Respect

• I'm by no means a pianist. I think that's safe to say, but the piano, for me, I would say it's the enabler. It gave me what I needed and gives me what I need in order to write a song. And I think playing or improvising on the piano is where I feel most liberated and sort of less conscious of all my insecurities or inadequacies.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Song
  • Playing
  • Piano

• 'Tom Sawyer' could have been written eight months ago, with the kind of response it still gets.

  

  Alex Lifeson Rush

• Since at least the Middle Ages, philosophers and philologists have dreamed of curing natural languages of their flaws by constructing entirely new idioms according to orderly, logical principles.

  

  Joshua Foer
  • Age
  • Language
  • Natural

• As a teenager, I wanted to look like the early '90s curvy supermodels. Even in my early 20s, I always said as soon as I retired from cycling, I'd get a boob job.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Job
  • Look
  • Said

• No one understood why I would wanna be behind the camera, not in front of the camera, and so no one took me seriously, and people said, 'Oh, well, this is just a hobby isn't it?' and I said, 'No, I really love this. I wanna make this my career,' and I did not have a lot of support at all for many years. People just kind of thought it was a joke.

  

  Amanda de Cadenet
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• Children live in a way that is very generous. They learn from a young age what you value; they watch your every move. If you value writing, they will learn quickly to value it too, as something they can give to someone, or receive with pleasure from someone else.

  

  Pam Allyn
  • Writing
  • Live
  • Children

• The people who loved me when I was seven years old love my books, and the people who didn't like me when I was seven years old don't like my books.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • People
  • Book
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