Zadie Smith Quotes
They had nothing to say to each other. A five-year age gap between siblings is like a garden that needs constant attention. Even three months apart allows the weeds to grow up between you.
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I learned that instead of relying on and imitating American music, there is a better chance for an Asian artist to succeed if he or she follows his or her own culture.
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If you want to grow a beard like mine, the only thing I can tell you is that you have to have patience. You just have to let it grow.
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I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara.
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By and large my relations with the US were good.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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First, to begin with, Mexico is North American; the one that is using wrong the term is United States. United States is not North America. North America is Mexico, United States, and Canada.
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I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but... I have a reputation of - people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow.
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There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.
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I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
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I wish I had given more time to learning classical singing.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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We live in the world when we love it.
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I don't think about records.
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No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
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When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.
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I think it's great fun sometimes when I am playing golf, just to give it a little uch, is to bet the other guy five bucks a hole or something like that.
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Life certainly points it out to you - 'you can go this way or the other way.' You have to decide and it's a very strong decision because, would you sleep well knowing that you're living in the best place, but you're letting the place where you should live alone?
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The best power of all is to be free, but Obama is not a free person. He is a prisoner of a military system. He talked about closing Guantanamo and ending the war in Iraq. Now he's taken on another war. What's happening?
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If a guy's talking to you at a club and you're having a long conversation, and then one of your friends comes up and he automatically devotes his attention to her, that's always a sign to look for. They're not always just doing it 'cause they're being 'friendly.' They want to look for somebody new.
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I basically took six or seven years off, but then I had another five or four of me not working at all because I was in school. It was really 13 years of me not working at all... I really couldn't even think about it.
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In pitching, control is the main thing-one thing you've got to have. Few pitchers have it. In batting, it is timing-waiting on the ball, not hurrying the swing-just as it is in golf. Most hitters in baseball swing too quickly. They can't wait on the pitch. Old Joe Jackson could wait. So could Speaker and Cobb
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They had nothing to say to each other. A five-year age gap between siblings is like a garden that needs constant attention. Even three months apart allows the weeds to grow up between you.
