Zadie Smith Quotes
You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.

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Israelis want peace and security, and Palestinians want peace and justice - these are two very different things, and this is the real gap we have to close.
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Gay kids need to stop killing themselves because they are made to feel worthless by cruel and relentless bullying.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods.
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Koran says whoever believes in God in the last day shall be saved. It is a religion whose very name, Islam, comes from the word Shalom, which means peace. It's about establishing peace. We greet each other with peace be upon you, which the Jews do in greeting each other.
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I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.
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I never left doo wop.
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Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
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When I think about making 'Within,' it was not a very fun experience at all.
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The Administration should never have walked away from the Kyoto Treaty. Global warming is real and it is here today. The facts aren't the issue. The policy is the issue. I think the Administration's policy on global warming is dead wrong.
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You can't just let nature run wild.
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I think I'm a guy who loves to play defense. I have a great time in the outfield. I think it's fun robbing guys on hits - there are plenty of times you're gonna be robbed as a hitter.
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There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.
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It was a pleasure to meet President Obama and Michelle. I'm not a political person, but I admire what he has done.
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As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
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One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought.
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If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.
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I don't prepare for anything very well. I am not a good actor. I don't read scripts.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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Why push people away? I love when people come up to me and say they appreciate the work!
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It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak.
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Ill give you a definite maybe.
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In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.
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You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.