Louise Erdrich Quotes
When every inch of the world is known, sleep may be the only wilderness that we have left.
Quotes to Explore
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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Tom Brokaw was never young.
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For the last seven years, I have been racing the best in the world and making my way through the ranks. I am in that spot where I have got a real opportunity to produce something. I am not going to take it for granted because I know those guys will step it up.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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I have great stories. I am going to write a book.
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One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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I can do whatever I want.
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I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left.
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The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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When I first started out in music, I was so negative. I was knee-deep in the streets. Then my friends started going to jail. They said, 'Boy, you better start taking this seriously; you got a chance to do something with your life.' That's when I realised I had to focus. The music led to the acting.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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I'll always be American in my world view and allegiance. American in the naive way I go to other countries and tell them how they should treat their poor or clean their water.
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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
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Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.
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But the voice goes on, calling us, beckoning us, luring us to think that there might be such a thing as justice, as the world being put to rights, even though we find it so elusive. We're like moths trying to fly to the moon. We all know there's something called justice, but we can't quite get to it.
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Some people object to libertarian ideas because there are too many irresponsible people in the world - people who will cause trouble if the government doesn't restrain them.
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It may well be that some composers do not believe in God. All of them, however, believe in Bach.
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When every inch of the world is known, sleep may be the only wilderness that we have left.
