Zadie Smith Quotes
Novels and stories are sometimes very complex staging grounds to say, in fact, very simple things. Things impossible to say otherwise because they are repeated in so many exploitative contexts - adverts and TV shows and political speeches.Zadie Smith
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Well, I'm a Harley Babe.
Laura Schlessinger -
When we manage a restaurant, we start making money from the first day. When we own a place, it's often five years before we earn the first penny that is clean of debt.
Daniel Boulud -
I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.
Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner -
I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
Ralph Fiennes -
The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
Paracelsus -
I tried college and I hated that. I seem to quit everything I do.
Harmony Korine
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I am prepared to do whatever I can do and whatever is reasonable to make sure that it is Hillary who makes it to the White House and not Trump.
J. B. Pritzker -
Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
Galileo Galilei -
If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
Zooey Deschanel -
For me, 'Atmosphere' was more about looking inwards and reaching out to people close to me. To emphasize the fact that I'm singing on the first single, this album is really more about me and songs that I've written instead of collaborating with people.
Kaskade -
From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show is a show is a show.
Walter Becker China Crisis -
Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
Karen Salmansohn
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Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.
Oscar Wilde -
I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
Vance Joy -
I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them!
Sai Baba -
I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
Gary Johnson -
I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thing you've ever been taught. And so, generally, in combat it's 'krauts,' the 'gooks,' the 'yanks' - whatever you want to do to try and make it so that it's not a human being.
Karl Marlantes -
It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
Zach LaVine
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I abide by a rule concerning reviews: I will never ask, neither in writing nor in person, that a word be put in about my book.... One feels cleaner this way. When someone asks that his book be reviewed he risks running up against a vulgarity offensive to authorial sensibilities.
Anton Chekhov -
I'm a science goober.
Mary Roach -
What I get really excited about are movies that I connect with emotionally. 'Deliverance' was on TV, and they don't really make movies like that anymore, just simple and scary. The truly scary thing is, 'I'm going to threaten your life, I'm going to threaten the people you love. What are you going to do about it?'
Katie Aselton -
A-bop-bop-a-loom-op-a-lop-bop-boom.
Little Richard -
The absorption of the individual in the universal is only another term for its destruction.
C. H. Dodd -
Novels and stories are sometimes very complex staging grounds to say, in fact, very simple things. Things impossible to say otherwise because they are repeated in so many exploitative contexts - adverts and TV shows and political speeches.
Zadie Smith