Louise Erdrich Quotes
I rarely step on sidewalk cracks. I don't wear a watch. I touch my favorite tree before going on long trips.
Quotes to Explore
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They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want.
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The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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If you put up a blog, people can cut out the middle man and get material to you. Which is really helpful because a lot of time there's really cool stuff out there that we just don't see. Because, y'know, the agent is acting in our best interest, but it does sometimes prevent some of the good stuff from getting through.
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I've no regrets at all, but I still think at times that I would have loved to play in England. You live football over there; it's a great culture. People respect you more; it's more difficult to find respect in Spain. There is more criticism here.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.
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I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
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Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.
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I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave.
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I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.
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I consider my education to be the first 10 years of my career.
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
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Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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I have this wonderful personal chef who sources and stocks all my organic produce and I basically live on five smoothies a day. I'm totally vegan. I blend this green concoction with kale, cucumber, broccoli, string beans, avocado. My protein comes from protein powder. There is absolutely no milk, butter, cheese.
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I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.
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I kind of always took it for granted the fact that my parents were Olympic medalists.
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I try to create an environment where, when we step onto the set, we're all in character.
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My swing is no uglier than Arnold Palmer's, and it's the same ugly swing every time.
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I reserve the right to survey the national political landscape for candidates at all levels who reflect a proper understanding of our national security, economic security, and family security - the ideals of social conservation, the heart and strength of our country.
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The misfortune is that many people, men and women, think that the perfect face has no flaws, no pores in the skin; and that gives unrealistic levels of esteem. Somebody feels they're not right because they haven't got that type of refinement.
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For as long as I am alive, I will not rest in my desire to lead my people out of an abyss of corruption and poverty.
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I rarely step on sidewalk cracks. I don't wear a watch. I touch my favorite tree before going on long trips.
