Louise Erdrich Quotes
Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled.
Quotes to Explore
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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Every member in Congress has a seat, and they deserve a seat at the table.
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Caste may be bad. Caste may lead to conduct so gross as to be called man's inhumanity to man. All the same, it must be recognized that the Hindus observe Caste not because they are inhuman or wrong-headed. They observe Caste because they are deeply religious.
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I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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I think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I'm not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie that's saying hello to people and falling over.
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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.
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Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.
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The reason why I moved from Young Thug to Jeffery was because I felt like I did a wrong turn.
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Any idealism is a proper subject for art.
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You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.'
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.
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Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.
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I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something.
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You can have solid third party politics, but the problem is you're all lumped in to all the fringe groups. That's a stereotype that happens.
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There's an, oh such a hungry yearning burning inside of me.
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Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled.
