Zadie Smith Quotes
The arena of women's lives is somewhat more intimate. If a woman goes out with an incredibly attractive man and they break up, that woman is not more attractive to men. It's completely irrelevant to them. That's an example of the way women's minds work.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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Let us have peace.
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If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
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The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.
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I was in high school. A couple of my friends and I decided we had to be in a class together where we could fool around, and drama was it because we'd do improvs, beating each other up. They left a year later, and I stayed in and got a knack for it, and enjoyed the whole process.
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I play on the left hand side, and I try to do the best I can.
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I was raised with those principals and values and ethics that came out of the men and women that served. But this generation doesn't quite know; they haven't been tested.
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I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.
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I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
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Understanding where to be in your own zone really takes some time and development to learn.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
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Many schools desperately need caring professionals like guidance counselors and social workers to ensure students' emotional, social and educational needs are met. But proposals to arm teachers are irresponsible and dangerous. The role of educators is to teach and nurture our children, not to be armed guards.
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I started 20 years without missing a race and ESPN started broadcasting on the air waves.
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Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
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I can't change the world. I have to fix me.
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The president - every president - works for us. We don't work for him. We sometimes lose track of this, or rather get the balance wrong. Respect is due and must be palpable, but now and then you have to press, to either force them to be forthcoming or force them to reveal that they won't be.
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Why bother with Google when I have a wife who knows everything about everything!
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Through the years I've never stopped doing things, thinking about things, and I still think young.
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Art is where we make a stand. If we don't make it there, freedom of expression is lost for everyone - for artists, for journalists, and for everyday people.
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The arena of women's lives is somewhat more intimate. If a woman goes out with an incredibly attractive man and they break up, that woman is not more attractive to men. It's completely irrelevant to them. That's an example of the way women's minds work.
