Zadie Smith Quotes
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May the soul of the late President Milton Obote... a long-time member of this parliament, rest in peace.
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A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
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I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate.
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There is always pressure in football.
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Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.
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I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.
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Americans have not only a right but a responsibility to consider the values of those who seek to lead them - whether they arise from life experience, political ideology or religious belief.
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
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One definition of noir is where a not-so-good man or woman tries to touch something good - and fails.
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Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!
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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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I've never had a MySpace or a Facebook page. I avoid that entirely.
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In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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I'm a compulsive storyteller, an avid reader, and have always nurtured the secret goal of spending my life as a writer.
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Most people live uncomplicated lives. They have work and quietly rear their children. There is an order and sanity about them that keeps the world going. There is an outer disorder and insanity about my life which makes me a victim. One of the disorders is that they won't give us citizenship here.
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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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If I'm going to be anything more than average, if anyone is going to remember me, then I need to go further, in art, in life, in everything!
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It's people's worst fantasy to see their partner kissing someone else, even though it's a job and it's not real.
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I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.
