Louise Erdrich Quotes
There are people who are always, I think, going to remain people of the book, to use another author's title, but people of the book, who really must be around.
Quotes to Explore
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
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People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
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After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.
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I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.
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I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.
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I think that what I'd like to instil is that if you join the youth theatre, it's a gateway into greater career prospects.
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.
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I love men. They are intelligent and sensitive, but there's also that hard-edged arrogant side, which is just so attractive.
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.
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Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
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Qualifying for the Olympics is probably harder than winning a medal at the Olympics.
Mandy Bujold -
I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it.
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The part of the brain that is watching the television and is on the computer at the same time, preparing to jump onto the treadmill for 15 minutes, might be able to lead into sex, but it would be hard put to lead us to romance, or to real authentic human connection.
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To write honestly and with conviction anything about the migration of birds, one should oneself have migrated. Somehow or other we should dehumanize ourselves, feel the feel of feathers on our body and wind in our wings, and finally know what it is to leave abundance and safety and daylight and yield to a compelling instinct, age-old, seeming at the time quite devoid of reason and object.
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Games get a bad press compared with, say, opera - even though they're obviously better, because no opera has ever compelled an audience member to collect a giant mushroom and jump across some clouds.
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I understand how the economy actually works.
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Banks and credit agencies learn continuously about the purchases we make. This is convenient and diminishes the risk of theft. It also means that banks can know more about our lifestyle than our close relatives.
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There are people who are always, I think, going to remain people of the book, to use another author's title, but people of the book, who really must be around.
