Louise Erdrich Quotes

I might not be able to use the word "hope," but I could certainly use the word "optimism." I'm very optimistic. I don't feel that it helps to be pessimistic. At some point in my life I made a conscious decision that I would try to be optimistic - not blind to anything at all - but to always hear the way that had the best chance for happiness.

Louise Erdrich

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• You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it.

  

  Camilla Belle
  • Work
  • Emotions
  • Work Hard

• The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Knowledge
  • Virtue
  • Self-knowledge

• Working with Barneys, and choosing the looks, I was thinking about whether a real woman would buy this outfit and feel beautiful and comfortable.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Beautiful

• I've been a fan since I was a kid of that sort of bump-in-the-night stuff. I don't tend to go in too much for the slash-and-burn-'em or the walker kills on 'The Walking Dead.' That stuff's not necessarily the stuff that frightens me or gets me going. It's more the terror of waiting, the thriller aspects, that I find compelling.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Night
  • Waiting
  • Kid

• Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • World
  • Society
  • Faith

• My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Good
  • Why
  • Mom

• Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
  • Teenager
  • Go
  • Through

• What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Job
  • Food
  • Cool

• Parents are telling other parents that you can save a lot of money renting. Forever they've been looking for a solution to higher textbook prices.

  

  Osman Rashid
  • Money
  • Parents
  • Forever

• A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Money
  • Movie
  • Things

• We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • May
  • Care
  • Mistakes

• I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• My boring, mundane, diligent kind of golf works sometimes. Actually, it works all the time. And sometimes, on the greatest stages, it really does flourish.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Time
  • Golf
  • Greatest

• Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Free
  • Independent
  • Africa

• Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Children
  • Happy
  • Be Happy

• I couldn't be more proud to introduce Anne-Marie Duff, a phenomenal actress who is bursting on the world stage, to Broadway audiences as Lady Macbeth.

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • World
  • Proud
  • Broadway

• Little boys have amazing minds.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Amazing
  • Minds
  • Little

• I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Think
  • Been
  • University

• In current times, our moral uproar is best reserved for those who aspire to stone men or women to death, not those who consensually watch women - or men, for that matter - dance.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Men
  • Women
  • Death

• A vain man is a nauseous creature: he is so full of himself that he has no room for anything else, be it never so good or deserving.

  

  William Penn
  • Men
  • Creatures
  • Vain

• Michael Jackson is an extremely productive ethnographer, a serious reader of phenomenological and existential philosophy, and a remarkable writer at a level that one rarely sees in anthropology. Lifeworlds, unsurprisingly, is no exception. The several essays included here fit into an impressive whole that set out a compelling case for a type of ethnography of which Jackson is one of the masters. The writing is strong and the critical reflections impressive. This book defines an approach to anthropology that is resonant enough to challenge the leading models of our time.

  

  Arthur Kleinman
  • Book
  • Michael Jackson
  • Ethnography

• When I won the Emmy, the profound sense of gratitude when my name was said I cannot express enough. It was one of the most beautiful moments, hands down, of my life.

  

  Ann Dowd
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Moments

• When your private life has been dragged into public space, you tend to attain a zen-like composure.

  

  Kalki Koechlin
  • Life
  • Space
  • Private

• I might not be able to use the word "hope," but I could certainly use the word "optimism." I'm very optimistic. I don't feel that it helps to be pessimistic. At some point in my life I made a conscious decision that I would try to be optimistic - not blind to anything at all - but to always hear the way that had the best chance for happiness.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Decision