Zadie Smith Quotes

My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.

Zadie Smith

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Don't keep reaching for the stars because you'll just look like an idiot stretching that way for no reason.

Jimmy Fallon

StarsIdiotYouLookWayReason

We need to stop the erosion of parental authority.

Sonny Landham

StopAuthorityNeedErosionParental

I don't come from a film background. so I am grateful to everyone who loves my work.

Sidharth Malhotra

WorkGratefulI AmEveryoneFilmAm

America is a great country. We are so wealthy. But our one remaining challenge is to fulfill the potential of all our people. And the only way we can do that is to try to bring everybody together to a higher place.

Dick Gephardt

GreatChallengeTogetherPeopleWay

Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand that if we decide to have sex whether safe, safer, or unsafe, it is our decision and you have no rights in our lovemaking.

Derek Jarman

SeaDecisionLawYouSexUnderstand

Taft was Roosevelt's handpicked successor. I didn't know how deep the friendship was between the two men until I read their almost four hundred letters, stretching back the to early '30s. It made me realize the heartbreak when they ruptured was much more than a political division.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

FriendshipMenMeDeepPolitical

I'm into a lot of different types of music - pretty much everything from blue grass to jazz to dub step to metal to indie experimental and progressive.

Britne Oldford

MusicBlueStepJazzGrassPretty

What I think we can do is help individuals understand the church teaching, but also maybe help the church understand the viewpoint of lay men and women about what they want in regard to priests, or how do they want the hierarchy to deal with them?

William P. Leahy

WomenMenThinkChurchHelpWant

Young girls need to see women who are strong and vulnerable and complex onscreen.

Kylie Bunbury

WomenStrongYoungNeedSeeComplex

Something that I think extends to a lot of African cultures is that the line between performer and audience is blurry. My mom would lead the wedding song regularly, and she isn't a professional singer. Even as an audience member, you're expected to clap and sing the response to the lead.

Kelela

MomSongThinkWeddingYouShe

You don't have to take yourself so seriously all the time.

Evan Rachel Wood

TimeYourselfYouSeriouslyTake

This marketization of personal information is a big mistake.

Evgeny Morozov

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