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 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 -
Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that.
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I started as a model in Holland and Chanel took me to New York when I was 19, after which I decided to stay.
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It's real nice and exciting for me to break the records, but it's more exciting for me to be on a winning team.
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I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the ideological framing of the debate that scares me.
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The Small Faces are thought to be a one-hit wonder in America because we only had 'Itchycoo Park.' Then the Faces just had 'Stay with Me.' So both bands could be considered one-hit wonders in America, even though we had several huge hits in England.
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Whenever anybody says what you do isn't good, it's always unflattering and makes me feel uncomfortable. But when the person who's in charge of the United States of America says, 'Not good,' I'm like, 'Oh.' It's a little unflattering.
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I molded myself against le Front National. Against hate speech, be it racist, sexist, xenophobic, or homophobic. Against the kind of injustice I faced during my own life.
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Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
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It is, I think, the very chaos of America that allowed me to prosper.
