"[F]rank knew he was guilty of arrogance and……" — Sherman Alexie
"[F]rank knew he was guilty of arrogance and misanthropy, but he compensated by being kind to strangers and tipping really well at restaurants."
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178 Quotes by Sherman Alexie
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I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that…
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Don't live up to your stereotypes.
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When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author.
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I don't know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I live a…
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I was a controversial figure on my reservation when I was a kid. I was mouthy and opinionated and arrogant.…
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If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time.
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My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.
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The dream he needed most was the dream that frightened him more.
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We all know the Indians were colonized by the Europeans, but every colonized Indian has been colonized by the Indian…
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In the middle of the night, when you're ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you're brown, beige, mauve, siena, one of…
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Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and…
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I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there's some strong identification for women,…
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What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music,…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
— Isaac Asimov
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But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such…
— Rowan Atkinson
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Stand-up came out of three things. Frustration, necessity and arrogance. I didn't have a great career ahead of me in…
— Eric Bana
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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.
— Joe Biden
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All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong.…
— Theodore Bikel
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The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
— Aesop
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The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness…
— Alain de Botton
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It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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