Zadie Smith Quotes
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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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.
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There was a time when no difficult subjects were ever aired in the 'Lady', and sadly, life isn't like that.
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If a political opponent has different approaches than mine, that doesn't make them a bad person. It means they have different backgrounds, experiences, and ideas.
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I know I was a great friend to Tiger Woods. But when you have a relationship that's involves business and friendship - and the business part comes to an end - things always get a little blurry.
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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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Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.
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It used to be that you came out of school, and you got married - those who were going to get married. But my peers are getting married in their early 30s, so now there's like this extra 10 years of that angst.
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I don't know what love means.
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One of the things, one of the things that really got to me was the thing in Houston where you had the government, the mayor actually, trying to get the sermons of ministers. When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on marriage, that's when it's time to resist.
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Poland is much more advanced than Romania in structural reforms.
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Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.
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Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
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Not raising the debt ceiling is not an automatic trigger for a default.
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.
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My main thing is music; it's what I do.
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So, I think I'd be grateful for the next job. I always am. And I always consider everything I do to be the last thing I do.
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Over this August district work period, like many of my colleagues, I spent a lot of time with the men and women in uniform from my home State. The 196th Field Artillery Brigade just got back from a year in Afghanistan.
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In the context of social media, reddit is more about the media than the personalities.
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Six of my 12 grandchildren are black.
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Let's turn British inventions into British industries, British factories and British jobs. Let them make pounds for us, not dollars marks or yen for others.
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I clean my face twice a day with cold water and don't go to sleep with make-up on.
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There is no bigger crime, in the English comic novel, than thinking you are right.
