Zadie Smith Quotes
I think I know a thing or two about the way people love, but I don't know anything about hatred, psychosis, cruelty. Or maybe I don't have the guts to admit that I do.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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Our life ripples out, and it has influence. That's why it's important that we're at our best and that we're influencing others for the good.
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Even when Facebook came out, and I was in college, I found myself never putting anything on it.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.
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I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre.
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I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.
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Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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I think the key to a great romcom is to not fight against the genre. The trend more recently has been to apologise or be snarky, so it's an anti-romcom. Just lean in and embrace the fact it's a love story, and it's funny, and it's light. It can still be uber-smart and deal with zeitgeist issues.
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With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.
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I picked up 'The Hunger Games' thinking it was written at my regressed reading level. I've spent hours reading it, and I'm not even halfway through. Our bass player, whose name is also Nate, ended up reading all three novels and loved them.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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I just don't eat too much. That's never been my problem.
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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I found leaving Manchester United very, very hard.
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Major Clark is one of the most outstanding officers of his grade in the U.S. Army... an officer of impeccable character with a rare blend of personal qualities and professional attributes which uniquely qualify him as a soldier-scholar.
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I think that Shakespeare himself raided fairy tales and chronicle writers, and he always looked to people who worked in the mythic genres, whether it was folk tales or popular novels.
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At some point, people may decide that the U.S. stock market has fallen enough. After all, the U.S. economy seems to be getting better, that what happens in China is not going to have that devastating effect on car sales here or how many people buy Apple phones or what happens at - how many people shop at Wal-Mart.
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I have a utilitarian approach to dressing; as long as I quite like it and it covers me up, I don't care what it is.
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I think I know a thing or two about the way people love, but I don't know anything about hatred, psychosis, cruelty. Or maybe I don't have the guts to admit that I do.
