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My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.
Sherman Alexie
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Sherman Alexie
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: October 7
Film Director
Film Producer
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Washington
Sherman Joseph Alexie
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Children
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Bush has not read enough books to have a developed moral sense. The fewer books you read, the easier it is to become fundamental. In some ways my antiwar stand here is also a stand on anti-literacy. Someone should get G.W. into a reading program, get him to join a book club. Have him read Hamlet, King Lear.
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I'm not a pacifist by any measure, but I'm also fully aware that the reasons I might go to war could be very dubious.
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