Zadie Smith Quotes
If religion is the opiate of the people, tradition is an even more sinister analgesic, simply because it rarely appears sinister. If religion is a tight band, a throbbing vein, and a needle, tradition is a far homelier concoction: poppy seeds ground into tea; a sweet cocoa drink laced with cocaine; the kind of thing your grandmother might have made.
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Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.
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This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
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I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
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To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.
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When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.
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Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
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Look, there ought to be politics in politics.
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The muses visit when I'm lonely.
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
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I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
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I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.
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I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
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I like to leave a film open-ended, with a lingering feeling. I'll not do sequels of any of my films till I have subjects to explore.
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People in Texas wear cowboy hats; they're good at keeping the sun off your neck and face.
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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
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We should always be suspicious when machine-learning systems are described as free from bias if it's been trained on human-generated data. Our biases are built into that training data.
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We salvage the bones of our lives every day, through small tragedies and big tragedies.
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If you say the word amnesty - the 'A-word,' so to speak - it's DOA. If there's even a hint of amnesty in my district, it's dead on arrival.
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I've never viewed myself as above anybody else or anything like that. I'm a regular guy at the end of the day. I like Cinnamon Toast Crunch and The Powerpuff Girls.
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Don't go trying some new fashion Don't change the color of your hair. . . . I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.
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If religion is the opiate of the people, tradition is an even more sinister analgesic, simply because it rarely appears sinister. If religion is a tight band, a throbbing vein, and a needle, tradition is a far homelier concoction: poppy seeds ground into tea; a sweet cocoa drink laced with cocaine; the kind of thing your grandmother might have made.
