Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
It meant something to see people who looked like me in comic books. It was this beautiful place that I felt pop culture should look like.Ta-Nehisi Coates
Quotes to Explore
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The defeat of Obamacare will come from the realization that the very idea of a government-administered health care system is absurd... and by people opting out of the system and developing workarounds.
Rand Paul -
I love what I do. And why not be nice? I mean, I've seen people who work and they're apparently not enjoying it, and they're making sure everybody knows it.
Nathan Fillion -
People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
Sam Taylor-Wood -
People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.
Lana Del Rey -
People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.
Fannie Lou Hamer -
I was 25 years old when I arrived in D.C. It was just myself and two people who worked and helped me in the kitchen. I was only cooking for three people most of the time.
Daniel Boulud
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I live in Rome and five minutes from my flat is a church where you can walk in and see this beautiful Caravaggio. Just the way this man uses dark paint: dark to create dark to create dark, the layering of the darkness in his work. I just race home: I want to create!
Taiye Selasi -
They're not willing to admit that I've also shed blood and tears and often paid dearly for my success. This makes me feel extremely sad.
Zhang Ziyi -
Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie.
Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet -
Me, it was always about being able to bounce around to where I wanna be. Like, with 'Arular,' people always say it's so political, but I think 50 per cent of the album is not very political at all. It's just really a shouty, shouty girl thing.
M.I.A. -
'The Unity Band' project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything else.
Pat Metheny -
My camps are always ten weeks. That's what makes me comfortable.
Canelo Alvarez
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I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
I just worry a lot. I'm a worrier. Michelle and Barack are really dear to me. I mean, I love them. And I don't want to see them get hurt. Just the nature of politics is hurtful. So every time they are hurt, I get hurt. It's a lot to ask of people, and it's a lot to see your friends go through. It's hard not to get emotional.
Valerie Jarrett -
I don't want to worry about maintaining an air of decorum that's not natural to me.
Taron Egerton -
What people don't realize is that Tinder built a brand on more than the experience of the swipe.
Sam Yagan -
I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular.
Jackie Stewart -
The idea that I should become president seems to me too visionary to require a serious answer. It has never entered my head, nor is it likely to enter the head of any other person.
Zachary Taylor
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I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
Baz Luhrmann -
White people have always slipped in and out of the experiences of people of color and been praised extravagantly for it.
Jenny Zhang -
People are looking around. They are looking to do something with their time and money. The question is, what?
John Simon -
It's easier to shut yourself off outside than reveal your inner thoughts.
Erica Durance -
The labs were happy that I was brave enough to attempt to program it and the $5 million computer was left entirely to my use. I was their human guinea pig.
Philip Emeagwali -
It meant something to see people who looked like me in comic books. It was this beautiful place that I felt pop culture should look like.
Ta-Nehisi Coates