Zadie Smith Quotes

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

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• All over the world, people are looking at India and saying 'wow', and that's because we have begun to say 'wow' ourselves.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • People
  • World
  • Saying

• 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.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Different
  • Real
  • Peace

• Gay kids need to stop killing themselves because they are made to feel worthless by cruel and relentless bullying.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Kids
  • Stop
  • Gay

• 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.

  

  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
  • Believe
  • America
  • City

• 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.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Good
  • Energy
  • Change

• 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.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • God
  • Peace
  • Day

• I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Career
  • Comedy
  • Expand

• I never left doo wop.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Never
  • Left

• Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Great
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• 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.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • People
  • World
  • Bad

• When I think about making 'Within,' it was not a very fun experience at all.

  

  Washed Out
  • Experience
  • Fun
  • Think

• 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.

  

  Ted Kulongoski
  • Real
  • Think
  • Today

• You can't just let nature run wild.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Nature
  • Run
  • WIld

• 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.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Time
  • Great
  • Fun

• If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorizing rather than being real. Maybe every other actor would think that was terrible, I don't know. But it seems to have worked for me, so far.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Good
  • Real
  • Think

• There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Thinking
  • Democracy
  • Idea

• It was a pleasure to meet President Obama and Michelle. I'm not a political person, but I admire what he has done.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Done
  • Political
  • Pleasure

• As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Life
  • Literature
  • More

• 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.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Country
  • Nature
  • Day

• The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Life
  • Never
  • Goal

• You may be sensitive inside, but what I see on the outside is a soldier.

  

  Lauren Graham
  • May
  • Soldier
  • Inside

• I'm not sure about this Live 8 thing. Correct me if I am wrong, but are they hoping that one of these guys from the G8 is on a quick 15-minute break at Gleneagles and sees Annie Lennox singing "Sweet Dreams" and thinks: "F... me, she might have a point there, you know." It's not going to f... happen, is it? Keane doing "Somewhere Only We Know" and some Japanese businessman going: "Aw, look at him...we should really f... drop that debt, you know." It's not going to happen, is it?

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Live
  • She
  • Singing

• When I first came to Washington in the 1960s, even at the height of the Vietnam War, until the end there in '68 there was a certain climate of cooperation. And then in the late sixties and in through the seventies, politics began getting more mean. And then from the eighties on it seemed to be institutionalized, this personal attack business. And I just hate it.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Climate
  • Washington
  • Cooperation

• You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • You
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  • Equality