Zadie Smith Quotes

Without the balancing context of everyday life, all you have is the news, and news by its nature is generally bad.

Zadie Smith

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LifeNatureYouBadNewsEveryday

Psychopathy might lurk behind the mask of sanity.

Robert J. Sawyer

MaskMightSanityBehind

You'd like more people to recognise what you do is special. But I take the attitude that the best thing I can do for my sport is to be the best at it. The best way people will come to recognise that track and field is a great sport is to see athletes excelling at it.

Maurice Greene

AttitudeGreatBestPeopleYouWay

I had struggles throughout my career. I had some tough times.

Ana Ivanovic

Tough TimesToughCareerStruggles

If I'm at a party, I can put on some crazy dance moves. However, it's not synchronized, beautiful or choreographed like a ballet dancer. I'd love to be graceful like that.

Sierra McCormick

LoveBeautifulDanceCrazyParty

It's rubbish to say that just because it's organic, it's better. There's good organic, and there's bad organic. We should all be thinking about taste, not some stamp on the package.

Tom Parker Bowles

GoodThinkingBetterBadSayTaste

The books I read, if they intrude on my writing, do so as weather will pass through and touch a landscape - affecting it, yes, but only now and then leaving a permanent mark.

Julia Glass

WeatherWritingLandscapeLeaving

My husband helps take care of our kids.

Lisa Madigan

HusbandCareTake CareTakeKids

People don't remember me for how high my legs went, even though they went up very high, and how many pirouettes I did. They don't remember me for that. They remember me and any other dancer because something touched them inside. It's an indelible memory on the heart and in the mind.

Judith Jamison

HeartMemoryPeopleMindMeLegs

What the church is really concerned about is what endures.

Donald Wuerl

ChurchConcernedAboutReally

In Germany, they have great difficulty with anything that smacks of cultism or messianic leadership. You can't talk about leadership in its charismatic forms.

David Whyte

LeadershipGreatYouTalkAnything

You know, I just tend to grow my beard out for 'Parks and Rec.' As an actor it's always easier to shave or cut your hair for a role, but it's hard to put fake hair on or grow hair for a role. When you look at pictures of me, the longer my hair is, the longer my facial hair is, that's just the longer I haven't gotten a job.

Chris Pratt

JobMeHairBeardFakeGrow

I've kissed in the rain so many times. I think one of my first kisses was in the rain. It was in Washington, D.C., with some kid named Dash, in eighth grade. It was in the rain.

Britt Robertson

RainThinkWashingtonFirstKid

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