"I sometimes think the contemporary white American is more culturally deprived than the Indian."

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Source : "Pioneer of Modern Native American Literature". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

N. Scott Momaday

#Thinking Quotes #White Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“I look at scouting reports, but don't let them dictate what I'm throwing.”
“When we were in the Munich house, sometimes [Adolf Hitler] would call the house line after one of their fights. They would talk and then Eva [Braun] would emerge from her room and behave normally.”
“We need to be willing to stand up and speak up for what we believe.”
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.”
“Nothing old is ever reborn but neither does it totally disappear. And that which has once been born, will always reappear in a new form”
“I have a new little stray dog that I've had for about a month now. His name is Mikey Mohawk - he's this little terrier with a natural Mohawk. My friend found him hit by a car on Pico Boulevard.”

Source : "Esquire Presents Me in My Place with Krysten Ritter". Interview with Mark Mikin, www.esquire.com. March 27, 2012.
“Twenty years is, after all, a long time. We are not the same people we were. Old friends, lovers, even family members: they are strangers who happen to wear a familiar face. We have no right to claim to know anyone after such a distance.”

Source : Graham Joyce (2012). “Some Kind of Fairy Tale”, p.248, Hachette UK
“People have their own interests and they want to play a certain kind of music. People want to play in orchestras. They want to play on Broadway. Those that want to play traditional jazz and have no interests in the ideas of improvisation. So in spit of the fact that there are fifty violin players, you might only narrow it down to ten and within those ten, there might only be three who have the right kind of background and credentials to deal with what you need to deal with. Everybody's got their own special thing that they are after and a lot of times you don't have time to be training people.”

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