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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Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit of a history regarding Pakistan.
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Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.
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In nations where the voices of intolerance are most visible and momentarily powerful, it is in our long run interests to remain firm in our clear articulation that the use of violence in response to speech is to be condemned.
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The sea erupted. Often the sea and land changed places. The immobility of contours of continents and seas, a dogma in geology, has no basis in fact. And immediately there is the problem of the climate. There were ancient climates that were very different from what they are today. If those corals grew where they were found, certainly the Earth was not travelling with the same elements of rotation and revolution which means not in the same orbit, not with the axis directed in the same position as it is today. If you don't believe it, try to conservate corals on the North Pole.
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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.
