Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
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I think it was a good challenge for me to get my reactions across without being able to speak.
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I'm not sure specifically but there's definitely parts of me in Rikku.
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People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.
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People should focus on my foundation, my projects, and everything positive and important that I am doing in Latin America and the around the world.
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I do not take steroids. I never have. It's sad to me that people want to point fingers. I don't do that. That's not me. I wouldn't feel like a human being.
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When I first came out, country wouldn't touch me because I was way too rock, and rock wouldn't touch me because I was definitely country.
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I screen tested for 'The Tudors' in N.Y. That was my first experience of N.Y., being flown here to screen test with Jonathan Rhys Meyers. So I have very, very fond memories of New York – New York helped give me my first big break.
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I think that, as athletes, sometimes we have the opportunities to make an impact. When it's authentic, I think there's room to share your opinion in an appropriate way.
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It's a lot of work and I also feel like I've done it. I miss comedy. And I also think that, from purely a logistical standpoint, that the day-to-day schedule on a comedy allows you to have a life, much more of a life, than on a drama.
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I think what people get confused about is that they want to label me as this EDM girl, but a lot of this stuff is genre-less.
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I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
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To me, there is nothing more soothing than the song of a mosquito that can't get through the mesh to bite you.
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There are guys out there faster than me.
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It is always nice when you are honoured. The Lifetime award makes me feel old. I am only 55.
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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
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I think she said I should seek help. Something like that, but it was in much cruder terms. And that I had a fascination with things coming out of people's mouths.
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I have some security that could protect me against provocations but of course there are more terrible actions that could not be stopped by any security.
Garry Kasparov -
There's not a blueprint for me to follow.
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So this is America. They must be out of their minds.
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The women who don't feel that people think they're sexy are the ones who seem to titillate in that way, because they don't feel like they're getting that kind of approval.
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I'm manic-depressive, technically bi-polar II with many borderline features.
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Trump doesn't force the networks to show his rallies live rather than do real reporting. Nor does he force anyone to accept his phone calls rather than demand that he do a face-to-face interview that would be a greater risk for him.
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That's why I loved Dinah Washington. She sung jazz, but they called her the Queen of the Blues. She had the control and sophistication of jazz in her note selection and how to attack a song or certain lines, but then attacked it with a painful force of blues behind it. That's why I admired her so much, because of that versatility.
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It is, I think, the very chaos of America that allowed me to prosper.
