Zadie Smith Quotes
The choices a writer makes within a tradition - preferring Milton to Moliere, caring for Barth over Barthelme - constitute some of the most personal information we can have about him.Zadie Smith
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Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.
Yiannis Chryssomallis -
Vox populi vox dei: the voice of the people is the voice of God. The slogan was useful for those who first attempted to substitute the people for God as the source of political authority. Their attempt was ultimately so successful that God no longer seems to be needed in government.
Edmund Morgan -
I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
Orlando Bloom -
Always farm fresh eggs, never store bought.
T. J. Miller -
I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
Walt Whitman -
China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.
Gary Locke
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Hopefully in the future, generational challenges will be measured by achievement, not gender.
Safra A. Catz -
By doing, you become employable. It doesn't matter what the job is; by working, you learn new things, meet new people and are exposed to new ideas.
Kate Reardon -
Modeling has always played off my D.J.-ing, but it is a fun supplement.
Harley Viera-Newton -
When I was in Van Halen I was hitting notes that were out of my range. I never went for those registers before until Eddie pulled it out of me.
Gary Cherone Van Halen -
She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
O. Henry -
I take pride in taking care of all the housework so that my wife, who works as a designer for Martha Stewart, won't need to sacrifice any of her leisure time when she gets home.
Said Sayrafiezadeh
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I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi -
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
Paramahansa Yogananda -
I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.
Aaron Stanford -
My style, in terms of what I wear, is kind of representative of the music.
Sam Hunt -
Hospitals are about healing.
Irwin Redlener -
I started coming up to New York at age 17. There was a girl I met over the summer somewhere; I was chasing her. I would drive up to D.C., where I had made some friends, which was about four hours away, and we would take the bus up to New York.
Garth Risk Hallberg
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We don't have any power other than our intellect and our hearts.
Hamza Yusuf -
I commend the parents who are sending their children to a Catholic school, because they're making a sacrifice, and they're paying twice for their child's education: They're paying the tuition, and they're paying taxes.
Blase J. Cupich -
I just feel like a kid that has some money now, that can take care of my family... I think I'll always be a kid. I'm always messing around, always running around, always trying to have a good time.
Billy Horschel -
We just kept going down the road, we kept trying to make the next record, the right choices to get there.
Zac Brown Band -
The choices a writer makes within a tradition - preferring Milton to Moliere, caring for Barth over Barthelme - constitute some of the most personal information we can have about him.
Zadie Smith