Louise Erdrich Quotes
Nothing I write ever has a moral. If it seems to a reader that there is one, that is unintentional.
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'
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What I would ask the Democrat Party is to put your plan on the table, because most people agree with the facts, and the facts are that Social Security is running out of money.
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I remember starting out and covering songs.
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Economically, ISIS is making money every day on the black market with their oil fields. But they are also putting money in banks. We know where those banks are. We should go after the banks and the facilitators using them.
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
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Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
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We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
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Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.
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Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
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I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.
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If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.
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I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.
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I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.
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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
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I always try to be nice to the paparazzi because finally, maybe one day, they won't ask for me, and I will regret it.
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I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin.
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While awareness-building is a crucial first step, cohesive efforts are needed to translate this into real-world change.
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I see that the flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.
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The man who goes up in a balloon does not feel as if he were ascending; he only sees the earth sinking deeper below him.
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I know there is moral outage in regard to Mr. Milosevic, and that is certainly justified. But what about our response?
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I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.
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Devils are depicted with bats' wings and good angels with birds' wings, not because anyone holds that moral deterioration would be likely to turn feathers into membrane, but because most men like birds better than bats.
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Nothing I write ever has a moral. If it seems to a reader that there is one, that is unintentional.
