Zadie Smith Quotes
The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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Time Inc. has amazing titles - really great content.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
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People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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My buildings are not particularly expensive. It is not a tin shed. If you want a tinny car, you pay for that.
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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A closed mind is a dying mind.
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'Faith' and 'trust' are words that put the power in the hands of an outside force that we are meant to rely on - whether it is God or a person or the universe. Certainty puts the power back in our hands.
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I flunked my exam for university two times before I was accepted by what was considered my city's worst university, Hangzhou Teachers University. I was studying to be a high school English teacher. In my university, I was elected student chairman and later became chairman of the city's Students Federation.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.
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The attacks on the Paris Metro in the 1990s were committed by members of the local Muslim community, immigrants from the Maghreb region of North Africa.
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It's the 21st century. It's untenable to suggest that women had no significance and no interest and that just because they didn't vote they had no relevance to the course of our history.
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Because my business life is so busy, my home is really my sanctuary. That is where I reflect and spend quality time with my girls.
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Many, many people of the Revolutionary generation, the generation that fought in the Revolutionary War, understood that slavery was somehow in contradiction to what America was saying it was. And many of those folks also, at the very least, gave land to African Americans when they were liberated.
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.
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A job is never truly finished. It just reaches a stage where it can be left on its own for a while.
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I have come across both inspiring teachers of history and deplorable ones over the years, so one cannot generalise, except perhaps to observe that the profession seems to encourage anti-militarist sentiments.
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If theological ideas prove to have a value for concrete life, they will be true, for pragmatism, in the sense of being good for so much. How much more they are true, will depend entirely on their relations to the other truths that also have to be acknowledged.
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Water’s water and that’s why it’s beautiful.
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The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
