Indian Quotes - Page 22

• In the John Wayne movies, the Indians were savages that were trying to scalp you. That culture has really suffered because of the stereotype you see in those westerns.

  Ricky Schroder

  Trying, Savages, Culture

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• I don't think people give Indian society enough credit. We may not like to talk much about things but we do, basically, want to live and let live.

  Vikram Seth

  Thinking, People, Giving

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• In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.

  Vikram Seth

  Temptation, Spite, Nations

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• The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.

  Navjot Singh Sidhu

  Past, Sea, Balls

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• The Indians are finding the gaps like a pin in a haystack.

  Navjot Singh Sidhu

  Gaps, Pins, Findings

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• As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.

  Zadie Smith

  Book, Roots, Mutiny

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• I was bred as an outcast, part Negro and part Seminole, in my early years raised as an Indian.

  Willie Stargell

  Years, Outcast, Raised

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• Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus.

  Peter Ustinov

  Food, Night, Men

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• I'm very proud to be the first winner of the Indian Grand Prix, but then on the other hand we recently lost two of our mates. I didn't know Dan Wheldon, but he was big in motorsport, and then this year I got to know Marco Simoncelli, so our thoughts are with them at the moment.

  Sebastian Vettel

  Hands, Years, Two

  "Sebastian Vettel underlines dominance at India Grand Prix, taking pole, win, fastest lap and leading for every single lap". www.mirror.co.uk. October 30, 2011.

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• Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk.

  Ethel Waters

  Ohio, Mohawks, Columbus

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• I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.

  John Wayne

  Funny, Country, Military

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• There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Animal, Men, Feds

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1953). “Little house on the prairie”, Scholastic

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• Then, I realized that there is an indigenous presence in the Solar System. It's us. So, then, I got to wondering what would happen if a more technologically advanced society moved next door to us, the way we moved next door to the American Indians.

  Sarah Zettel

  Doors, Way, Next

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• If you look at national economies today, for example, the American economy, the European economy, the Indians, the Chinese, we're all tied together. If one of them sinks, the rest are going to sink with them and if one floats, the rest are lifted up. I find that very interesting.

  Frans de Waal

  Economy Today, Interesting, Chinese

  "Frans de Waal on Politics, Fairness, and Human Nature". Interview with Eric Michael Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 14, 2011.

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• Conventional Indian cinema is about people falling in love. They sing, they dance.

  Anurag Kashyap

  Falling In Love, People, Cinema

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• Indian films have this obsession with hygienic clean spaces, even though the country's not so clean. They're either shot in the studios or shot in London, in America, in Switzerland - clean places. Everywhere except India.

  Anurag Kashyap

  Country, America, Space

  "Anurag Kashyap: Bollywood is to blame for India's inability to deal with reality" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2013.

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• There is more to Indian cinema than just Bollywood. I think regional cinema, especially Tamil and Marathi cinema are exploring some really bold themes.

  Anurag Kashyap

  Thinking, Bollywood, Cinema

  "A Minute With: Anurag Kashyap". Interview with Shilpa Jamkhandikar, in.reuters.com. May 20, 2012.

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• I don't listen to Bollywood music much. But yes I listen to Indian music quite often and other non- film music.

  Kailash Kher

  Bollywood, Film Music, Indian Music

  "I don’t listen to Bollywood music much: Kailash Kher". Interview with Reagan Gavin Rasquinha, timesofindia.indiatimes.com. August 16, 2013.

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• Mythology works... because Indians have been bred on myths.

  Ashwin Sanghi

  Mythology, Myth, Has Beens

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• There is an Indian proverb that says that everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an emtional, and a spiritual . Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time but unless we go into every room every day, even if only to keep it aired, we are not a complete person.

  Rumer Godden

  Spiritual, Emotional, People

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• Bastian had climbed a dune of purplish-red sand and all around him he saw nothing but hill after hill of every imaginable color. Each hill revealed a shade or tint that occured in no other. The nearest was cobalt blue, another was saffron yellow, then came crimson red, then indigo, apple green, sky blue, orange, peach, mauve, turquoise blue, lilac, moss green, ruby red, burnt umber, Indian yellow, vermillion, lapis lazuli, and so on from horizon to horizon. And between the hill, separating color from color, flowed streams of gold and silver sand.

  Michael Ende

  Blue, Color, Sky

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• I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the next surest thing for an Indian was soap and education. Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run; because a half-massacred Indian may recover, but if you educate him and wash him, it is bound to finish him some time or other.

  Mark Twain

  Running, Educational, Long

  "Mark Twain’s Comedy Classics". 190+ Stories & Sketches,

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• The struggle is inner: Chicano, indio, American Indian, mojado, mexicano, immigrant Latino, Anglo in power, working class Anglo, Black, Asian--our psyches resemble the bordertowns and are populated by the same people. The struggle has always been inner, and is played out in outer terrains. Awareness of our situation must come before inner changes, which in turn come before changes in society. Nothing happens in the "real" world unless it first happens in the images in our heads.

  Gloria E. Anzaldúa

  Real, Struggle, Psych

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• At the halfway point of any drunken night, there is a moment when an Indian realizes he cannot turn back toward tradition and that he has no map to guide him toward the future.

  Sherman Alexie

  Night, Maps, Realizing

  Sherman Alexie (1993). “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven”, Harper Perennial

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• Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know I can do it; I saw Indians smash my dear parents' heads on the pillow next to mine, and I have seen some reddish work done at night, and I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down! - Abigail

  Arthur Miller

  Night, Parent, Crucible

  Arthur Miller (1957). “Arthur Miller's collected plays: with an introduction”, Viking Pr

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