Zadie Smith Quotes

If you love a young writer, maybe the best thing you can do is give them a little bit of space.

Zadie Smith

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LoveBestSpaceYouYoungLittle

According to Johnny Carson, I was the guy who Marlon sent out to do all the dirty work.

Jim Fowler

WorkDirtyOutGuyWhoJohnny

Nobody ever died of laughter.

Max Beerbohm

LaughterNobodyEverDied

It's easy to fall into the trap of assuming that a new technology is very similar to its predecessors. A new technology is often perceived as the linear extension of the previous one, and this leads us to believe the new technology will fill the same roles - just a little faster or a little smaller or a little lighter.

Michael J. Saylor

TechnologyBelieveEasyFallNew

I believe the biggest breakthroughs on cancer could come from brilliant researchers based in India.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

BelieveIndiaI BelieveBrilliant

I think the 1970s will always be the decade for me. Obviously, I grew up in that era, but the beauty standard was touchable, kissable.

Tom Ford

BeautyMeThinkWillDecadeAlways

If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth.

Roberto Clemente

TimePeopleChanceBetterYouEarth

As I've said repeatedly over the last few years, the war on coal was not a result of anything Congress passed; there was no legislation.

Mitch McConnell

WarResultCongressSaidAnything

We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.

Lord Byron

GoodMyselfTrustSelfishOthers

I don't write demographically. I don't write a song to reach these people or those people.

Bruce Springsteen

PeopleSongReachWriteThose

There is no doubt that this government and this country are benefiting from the reforms that we brought in the 1980s, and that couldn't have been done without the co-operation of the trade union movement.

Bob Hawke

GovernmentDoubtCountryDoneTrade

It used to be that you could have fun with interviews with the foreign press, knowing that nothing you said would make it back to any voters until long after the election was over, if ever.

Susan Estrich

FunHave FunLongYouBackElection

Then I think the sense of it being one community breaks down; but if you know instantly and respond within twenty-four hours, it's a very different sort of situation.

Peter Singer

CommunityThinkYouDownSituation

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