Sherman Alexie Quotes
Well, I think the worst part about tribalism is its tendency to fundamentalize, and if I can fight fundamentalism in any of its forms I'm happy.
Sherman Alexie
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The life of an actor is never one to get comfortable.
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I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.
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I wasn't pampered the way a Tyrone Power was.
Victor Mature
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
Gary McCord
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When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better than turning off and getting lost.
Karin Slaughter
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So, while I gave up the notions of publishing at that time, I never stopped editing and refining that book. A few years later, in 1987, I thought I had it ready to go out again.
R. A. Salvatore
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I was almost 8 years old when I was watching a kid on a TV commercial, and I told my mom that I wanted to do the same thing. She said that I would need to get an agent and that she would research it.
Victoria Justice
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Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.
Orson Welles
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Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul - the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile.
Langston Hughes
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In order to govern, you have to win.
Marcia Fudge
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After touring with David Bowie last year, I was inspired to look at what I wanted to do as an artist, and I realized I wanted to go back to the music I fell in love with when I was eight years old.
Emm Gryner
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If it's right and true, it's listened to and accommodated.
David Ogden Stiers
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It's not as though we can keep burning coal in our power plants. Coal is a finite resource, too. We must find alternatives, and it's a better idea to find alternatives sooner then wait until we run out of coal, and in the meantime, put God knows how many trillions of tons of CO2 that used to be buried underground into the atmosphere.
Elon Musk
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I try to have the motto of living life with no regrets.
Matt Flynn
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When I was offered 'Hawkeye,' it was very intimidating at first because that book is so loved and so successful, commercially and critically. The worst thing you could do is try to imitate what they did because, in the end, you're just going to get a watered-down version of what they did.
Jeff Lemire
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Learning isn't something you should only do solo.
Geoff Mulgan
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I think intuition can be a form of answered prayer. You do the best you can - thinking, figuring, planning - and then you pray.
Conrad Hilton
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I didn't know the books and certainly didn't know the tragic origin story of Mary Poppins in 1906 Australia.
John Lee Hancock
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The farmer doesn't sow any seed; he chooses it carefully for by experience he knows that the harvest will be of the same Nature of the sowing. The wise man observes the laws of life and lives accordingly. Therefore, you sow in the furrow of life generous and beneficial procedures for all that according to the law your harvest, being good will make your life better.
Amado Nervo
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I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.
Ice T
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If you have the means, I would highly recommend using supplementations for optimal health.
Jillian Michaels
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Of all the things which a man has, next to the gods his soul is the most divine and most truly his own.
Plato
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People have been fed misinformation. The fact is that the fighting that is going on on the ground in Syria is with Al Qaeda, with Jabhat al Nusra, with Daesh. The pockets, small pockets, of other groups are usually surrounded by these various extremist groups. . . . Once they stop fighting, there is nothing for the Syrian government to hit other than the terrorist organizations.
Mohammad Javad Zarif
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Well, I think the worst part about tribalism is its tendency to fundamentalize, and if I can fight fundamentalism in any of its forms I'm happy.
Sherman Alexie
