Leslie Marmon Silko Quotes
As long as the hummingbird had not abandoned the land, somewhere there were still flowers, and they could all go on.
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When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
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I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl.
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In terms of achievement, the pride is very important to me. It keeps me going every day. The money is always second to me.
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Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.
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Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.
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I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.
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I am a member of the London Library, and on almost every single job I do, there is some benefit to be had in going there and pulling two or three books off the shelves.
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Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
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In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.
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I kind of always took it for granted the fact that my parents were Olympic medalists.
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It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.
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Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.
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A lot of times, you think you want something, and then you find something completely different.
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There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level.
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It's not what other people believe you can do, it's what you believe.
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Test cricket is a different sort of cricket altogether. Some players who are good for one-day cricket may be a handicap in a Test match.
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You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points.
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To come in and win three races already this year and maybe set a record by winning four is pretty unique. But guys like Mark Martin, Rusty Wallace and these guys are not wanting that to happen.
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We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism.
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How many a holy and obsequious tear hath dear religious love stolen from mine eye, as interest of the dead!
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May the soul of the late President Milton Obote... a long-time member of this parliament, rest in peace.
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If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.
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I mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive.
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As long as the hummingbird had not abandoned the land, somewhere there were still flowers, and they could all go on.
