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.
Zadie Smith
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Madeline Kahn
This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
Harold Brodkey
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J. Cole
To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.
Ian Botham
My whole deal is I want to have a principle-based, member-driven caucus.
Dan Webster
I would say when you're dealing with live musicians and musicality, the warmth of a live instrument brings a certain feel to a song that is really hard, sometimes, to get from synthesized instruments.
Justin Scott
We are a nation at war - and we should act like it.
Peter T. King
I've come up in the scripted world, and I have wished there were more time slots for us to tell compelling scripted stories and not fill the airwaves with a lot of fluff and tabloid entertainment.
Ralph Macchio
Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.
Peter Marshall
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.
Zadie Smith
