Louise Erdrich Quotes
My mother is Turtle Mountain Chippewa, and she lived on her home reservation. My father taught there. He had just been discharged from the Air Force. He went to school on the GI Bill and got his teaching credentials. He is adventurous - he worked his way through Alaska at age seventeen and paid for his living expenses by winning at the poker table.
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You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.
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What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.
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I'm just a Connecticut country boy. The people I've known, the changes of season, the call of the blue jay - when I'm away, all of them haunt me.
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Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.
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The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
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I started acting when I was 5 years old. And I was pretty well known for a while. Your self-esteem and your identity start to become wrapped up in that celebrity, and when that starts to fade away, your self-esteem and your identity start to fade away with it.
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I don't usually wear a lot of makeup because I tend to like a natural look.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.
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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
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I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me!
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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
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Poring over fragments of other people's lives, peering into their bedrooms when they don't know we're there, we thrill to the glamour and the power of secret knowledge, partly detoxified but also heightened by being shared.
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It's ridiculous to imagine you can stay young forever and live forever. It's taking away from young people. There's a beauty and respect in age. Magazines and media are disrespectful of age.
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The average woman must inevitably view her actual husband with a certain disdain; he is anything but her ideal. In consequence, she cannot help feeling that her children are cruelly handicapped by the fact that he is their father.
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My mother is Turtle Mountain Chippewa, and she lived on her home reservation. My father taught there. He had just been discharged from the Air Force. He went to school on the GI Bill and got his teaching credentials. He is adventurous - he worked his way through Alaska at age seventeen and paid for his living expenses by winning at the poker table.
