Louise Erdrich Quotes

It is easy to take away the world that we think is so permanent and reliable.

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• It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Time
  • Faith
  • Reason

• I generally make a sort of playlist for my iPod for whatever project I'm doing.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Doing
  • Project
  • Whatever

• One of the reasons a strategist never sits in a stadium and gets caught up in the crowds - and never sits watching a debate in person - is because the vast majority of American voters watch these political events on television.

  

  Ed Rollins
  • Up
  • American
  • Political

• Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Work
  • Simple
  • Brazil

• Sometimes I'd say what's bad for the country is good for my business, unfortunately.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Good
  • Country
  • Business

• I was elected on April 13 and sworn in two days later, so I had no orientation. I had to figure things out as I went along.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Days
  • April
  • Along

• You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Time
  • School
  • Kids

• You've got a great chance in college to do all sorts of terrible irresponsible things, and you should totally do them. I mean, make huge mistakes. This is the time in your life if you screw up, it's okay because you can bounce back from it.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • Together
  • Happy

• I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • People
  • World
  • Respect

• I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Like
  • Hair
  • Gray

• All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'

  

  Manal al-Sharif
  • Country
  • Why
  • Said

• When we're back home, I feel pretty domesticated.

  

  Washed Out
  • Home
  • Pretty
  • Feel

• I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Me

• Lumpy and lazy; I aspired to lethargy. In the second year of university, I missed half my classes just because I couldn't pull myself out of bed.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Myself
  • Year
  • Lazy

• I'm still raising kids myself, so I don't feel like a grandpa.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Kids
  • Myself
  • Like

• Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.

  

  Flo Rida
  • Music
  • Way
  • Basketball

• Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Love
  • Learn
  • For Her

• I think when you've had success, publishers and reviewers and readers are willing to let you try something new if you've already proven yourself. They're excited about what you're doing, you have people interested in it, and actually waiting for it. It's empowering.

  

  Lois Lowry
  • People
  • Success
  • Waiting

• Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.

  

  Ted Hughes
  • World
  • Good
  • Opportunity

• I travel around the world constantly promoting my projects and endorsing products. Yes, I do get paid to go to parties; in fact, I'm the person who started the whole trend of paid appearances. But when you see me at a party, I'm always working or promoting something.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • World
  • Person
  • Travel

• What in the world would we do without our libraries?

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • World
  • Libraries

• When I come to be united to thee with all my being, then there will be no more pain and toil for me, and my life shall be a real life, being wholly filled by thee.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Life
  • Real
  • Pain

• It is easy to take away the world that we think is so permanent and reliable.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • World
  • Think
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