Sherman Alexie Quotes

There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons.

Sherman Alexie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 7, 1966

Topics

BasketballPoliticalHeritageSocial

That's where the Black Keys and Jack White have succeeded and I've failed: They've actually convinced college kids that they're listening to hip music - but it's just blues twisted a new way - while I'm playing for the college kid's parents.

Joe Bonamassa

MusicParentsCollegeListeningNew

I just feel like the songs that come out are the songs that come.

John Frusciante

FeelOutComeJustLikeSongs

I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.

Aneurin Bevan

SympathySmallColdWarmAliveThan

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.

John Tillotson

GreatIgnoranceTwoRuinMankind

I think that as you get older, you learn to live in yourself more securely.

Amy Smart

LiveYourselfThinkLearnYouMore

I don't think Jerusalem should be controlled 100% by religious people of any denomination, sect, or religion - even my own.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

ReligionPeopleThinkMy OwnOwn

The poet has no greater number of muscles than the ordinary conversationalist; he merely has more highly developed muscles and better coordination. And he practises his activity according to a stricter set of rules.

Louis MacNeice

BetterRulesMorePoetMusclesSet

Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries.

Jonathan Zittrain

ControlDigitalComingBooksReaders

I play a curator, the most American part you can think of. My work is to protect the Declaration of Independence. I work at the National Archives in Washington.

Diane Kruger

WorkThinkIndependenceAmericanYou

When we think about the characteristics of Twitter that make it unique, it is all of public, real-time, conversational, and distributed. We are the only platform that is all of those at scale.

Dick Costolo

ThinkUniqueOnlyCharacteristics

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

Christopher Marlowe

WealthExcessCauseCovetousness

The criterion for racism is either objective or it's meaningless: If liberals get to decide for themselves who is or isn't a racist according to their political lights, conservatives will be within their rights to ignore them.

Bret Stephens

RacismPoliticalIgnoreLightsWill

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