Zadie Smith Quotes
Are there other people who, when watching a documentary set in a prison, secretly think, as I have, 'Wish I had all that time to read'?
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With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.
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My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.
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My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private.
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Some people have a misunderstanding about the Army. Some people think, 'Hey, you're in the military, and everything is super-hierarchical, and you're in an environment that is intolerable of criticism, and people don't want frank assessments.' I think the opposite is the case.
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Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered to replace corrupt or incompetent rulers.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.
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About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'
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I've always considered myself to look like a rather plain-and-exhausted bluestocking, so it's rather odd to read Tweets commenting on my appearance.
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My friends told me that it's the hardest thing to separate the personal life from their work.
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There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.
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We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.
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When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.
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By the time of the '90s boom, CEOs had become superheroes, accorded celebrity treatment and followed with a kind of slavish scrutiny that Alfred P. Sloan could never have imagined.
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Everything I turn up to, I think I'm going to enjoy. I never look back, so I don't have regrets.
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Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.
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My daughter will find some of the sweetest words to tell you that can make a grown man cry. She still gives me the same inspiration. She still motivates me.
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The average person works at fifty percent or less of their potential. Your job is to unleash that extra fifty percent.
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Are there other people who, when watching a documentary set in a prison, secretly think, as I have, 'Wish I had all that time to read'?
