#indian

The Indians knew that life was equated with the earth and its resources, that America was a paradise, and they could not comprehend why the intruders from the East were determined to destroy all that was Indian as well as America itself. ↗

— Dee Brown

#comprehend #could #destroy #determined #earth

It affords me sincere pleasure to be able to apprise you of the entire removal of the Cherokee Nation of Indians to their new homes west of the Mississippi. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#affords #cherokee #entire #homes #indians

I play a female Indiana Jones, a professor who hunts down precious objects, like a bowl that belonged to the Buddha. They tailored the role to me: I wanted to be smart, funny, and to kick some ass. ↗

— Tia Carrere

#belonged #bowl #buddha #down #female

I was once stranded on a broken-down boat in shark-infested waters in the middle of the Indian Ocean for five days before we were rescued while doing a 'Vogue' shoot. ↗

— Helena Christensen

#boat #days #doing #five #i

It's an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana. ↗

— Bill Condon

#indiana #movie #new #new york #odd

I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy. ↗

— Harrison Ford

#action movie #adventure #book #call #comic

The fey in this country keep to themselves, and are a separate nation, much like the American Indians, but with even more autonomy. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#american indians #autonomy #country #even #fey

Gordie, the white boy genius, gave me this book by a Russian dude named Tolstoy, who wrote, 'Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.' Well, I hate to argue with a Russian genius, but Tolstoy didn't know Indians, and he didn't know that all Indian families are unhappy for the same exact reasons: the frikkin' booze. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#american-indians #humor #tolstoy #family

I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#i #i am #indian #life #powerful

One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#almost #deeper #eat #every #food