Zadie Smith Quotes
Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.Zadie Smith
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -
In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
Valerie Plame -
I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
Sam Raimi -
My mum has lived in Australia for 22 years now, and we have a rocky relationship. But at the same time it's one I want to maintain. I need her to be my mum. The relationship took a lot of rebuilding.
Sam Taylor-Wood -
Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
Vince Lombardi -
I like to keep my private life private.
Cara Delevingne
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I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.
Manny Pacquiao -
There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
Saint Augustine -
You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.
Daniel Berrigan -
Make sure that the people at the top are working together and there aren't divisions of labor. Don't have people working in silos; have them working across the team.
Patrick Lencioni -
As a competitor, I want to continue to keep turning the chapters and keep challenging myself.
Abby Wambach -
Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
Manuel Puig
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Years ago, I carved out an identity, and it has always been about having a voice to tell people about stuff I love.
Eddie Trunk -
A resilient culture has a certain amount of resistance embedded in it. Not so much to capsize it, but enough so that it doesn't atrophy.
Adam Grant -
I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
Queen Latifah -
You always have to be on at times, and occasionally people get upset if you say no to a picture when you're eating dinner or something, and that's kind of the hard part. Or if you get crazy rumors that swirl around you from time to time that are just silly.
Aaron Rodgers -
I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee -
The U.S. along with China, Japan, South Korea and Russia has an important role to play in containing North Korea's nuclear ambitions and exerting all the influence we can possibly exert.
Zach Wamp
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Every day, you have to get up with new energy and new ideas to contribute to pushing the organization forward.
Abagail Johnson -
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
This new plastic idea will ignore the particulars of appearance, that is to say, natural form and color. On the contrary, it should find its expression in the abstraction of form and color, that is to say, in the straight line and the clearly defined primary color.
Piet Mondrian -
And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.
Bobby Knight -
We won't die secret deaths anymore. The world only spins forward. We will be citizens. The time has come. Bye now. You are fabulous creatures, each and every one. And I bless you: More Life. The Great Work Begins.
Tony Kushner -
Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.
Zadie Smith