"Humor was an antiseptic that cleaned the deepest……" — Sherman Alexie
"Humor was an antiseptic that cleaned the deepest of personal wounds."
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178 Quotes by Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie has 178 quotes on this site.
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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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More Antiseptic Quotes
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In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.
— Joe Biden
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Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.
— John Henry Jowett
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Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic. This is a most searching and true diagnosis. Gratitude can be…
— John Henry Jowett
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... we ought to have saints' days to commemorate the great discoveries which have been made for all mankind, and…
— Winston Churchill
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In the antiseptic world we try to purge ourselves of difficult things. Don't dwell on it, switch off the light…
— Jeanette Winterson
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I walk up a dune to a beach and look out to sea, but it's 100km away. The ships lie…
— A. A. Gill
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My music was called plastic, antiseptic, placid.
— Patti Page
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Strategy should evolve out of the mud of the marketplace, not in the antiseptic environment of an ivory tower.
— Al Ries
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There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which features rhymed and singing commercials,…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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Fighting the Taliban and the various radical organizations on the front lines is like adding a Band-Aid to a cut,…
— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
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Religion would certainly be more relevant to the hurting masses of humanity if people could express their hopes and dreams…
— Joseph Girzone
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Thimerosal is commonly used as an antiseptic/preservative in vaccines in the range of 1:10,000 to 1:20,000. Welsh's and Hunter's 1940…
— Jamie Murphy
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