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Zadie Smith Quotes

It seems to me that we often commit ourselves wholly to something while knowing almost nothing concrete about it. Another word for that, I suppose, is 'faith.'

Zadie Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: british
Birth: October 25, 1975

Topics

Faith Me Nothing Knowing Concrete

What passions cannot music raise or quell?

John Dryden

Music Cannot Passions Raise Quell

Comedy comes from tragedy, and being Iranian in America from 1979 on had been quite tragic. In stand-up comedy, I was able to take the reality and exaggerate it.

Maz Jobrani

Reality Comedy America Tragedy Take

Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case.

John Rawls

Life Great Compassion Pain Evil

Evil counsel travels fast.

Sophocles

Evil Fast Counsel Travels

When you talk to a Latin American president, they make you feel so tiny right from the beginning, right from the moment when they shake your hands.

Jorge Ramos

Moment Beginning American Hands You

Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science.

Clyde Tombaugh

Science Bible Mythology Ancient Fit

You can't create a movie as you think about it. And what's in the scene is not what's being seen. A shot always means something other than what it is. All are vehicles. A landscape is just a vehicle. The viewer might think different things, and I'm not going to intervene.

Bruno Dumont

Think Landscape You Create Always

I don't think of eggs as being fundamental to the flavor of mayonnaise, but they are to Hollandaise.

Wylie Dufresne

Think Eggs Being Flavor Mayonnaise

One of the important things for me is that my father is from Sri Lanka. But even more importantly, he was a consultant for the World Bank.

Sunil Yapa

Father Me World Important Consultant

I have the same criteria for choosing roles as I have always had: fantastic writing and complicated characters.

Paula Malcomson

Writing Complicated Same Always Had

Tell the trial lawyers to get out of your state and to quit costing businessmen and women.

Rick Perry

Women Lawyers Quit Out Tell Get

If I was to describe myself in terms of a political philosophy, I'd cast myself as a social and economic liberal, which is typically what people describe as being left-of-centre on social issues and right-of-centre on economic issues.

Leo Varadkar

Myself People Political Philosophy