Zadie Smith Quotes
All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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Form can only be destroyed accidentally, i.e., on account of its connexion with substance, the true nature of which consists in the property of never being without a disposition to receive form.
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People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
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I'm kind of a perfectionist, and it gets in the way with my putting sometimes. Golf is a messed-up game. When you feel you've figured it out is when you're going to struggle.
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Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
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I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.
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Most of my stuff, I never really watch.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.
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I've always looked at 2016, but 2020 is realistic for me. I'll be 23 in 2016, but if I keep on progressing, hopefully 2016 will be a medal chance as well for me.
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One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.
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Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.
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No access to me, nor my staff, will ever affect what we do to protect consumers of the state of Florida.
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The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
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The future ain't what it used to be.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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The inability to trace DNA to actual diseases has serious consequences. As does the opposite problem - not being able to trace diseases back to DNA.
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My dad had been an actor... not only had my dad been an actor, but his dad had been an actor, and my great-grandfather had been an actor. And who knows before then?
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There are so many possibilities of life out there that an alien doesn't have to have green, long tentacles. They can be very similar to us.
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I never was a caterer, but I did deliver pizzas.
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We're really not that good. We're overachieving here and there. But the future looks bright.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
