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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I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.
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I try to dress classy and dance cheesy.
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To me, Hollywood seems a little bipolar. Things happen; things don't happen. Someone's in a movie; someone's not in a movie. I've learned not to build my expectations.
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My little siblings keep me grounded. I'm a kid at heart.
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It's not every day you get to do what you love and have a major story behind it.
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It is, I think, the very chaos of America that allowed me to prosper.
