Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
African Americans are one of the oldest ethnic groups in this country. We been here since the beginning. Before the beginning.
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At the beginning of all experimental work stands the choice of the appropriate technique of investigation.
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Venezuelan baseball is more aggressive, more passionate, more exciting. The fans are not the same as in your native country.
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There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.
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Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I've met.
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I wouldn't want to cover a Hank Williams song in a country-western way. It doesn't occur to me instinctually to re-create productions. I'm interested in re-creating songs. Putting different clothes on them.
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We played 'Girl in a Country Song' in front of Scott Borchetta, and he loved it.
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We will do everything to change what needs to be changed, fight against recession so that the country meets its targets, while reinforcing our country in the heart of the euro and the European Union.
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Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.
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I realised that the idea of enforcing sharia is not consistent with Islam as it's been practised from the beginning. In other words, Islam has always been secular, and I had been totally ignorant of the fact.
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We have the British motor industry as a role model for what happens when you try to save an industrial dinosaur. Britain was the first country to industrialise and the first to de-industrialise. We should learn from this.
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It's hard to absorb and to allow all that attention and accolades for 'Rent' because the rest of the country doesn't know who we are. Once I walk out of the door of 'Rent,' and I'm on the subway, it doesn't matter. It's an exaggerated sense of fame.
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New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.
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I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.
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It's amazing to think how powerful of a force optimism and hope can be. It's the thing that saves me. I believed that I lived in the greatest country in the world. I still believe that, and consequently, I believed that I had a chance, even though things around me were absolutely crazy and difficult.
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It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country.
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There isn't a country I ain't touch in Africa. I just came back from South of France, I toured China, Japan, wherever you name, 60,000 people come out to see Fat Joe.
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You know, America is - for me, it's the best country.
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If your house has been on the market for more than four months, take it off the market and re-list it in two months as 'new.'
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To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings, in undeserved sufferings.
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Buildings are always better than drawings and models.
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We didn't have our online service developed. We had never shipped a console game before as a company. So we were developing a lot of new competencies as a company and assembling a new team.
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'Let your occupations be few,' says the sage, 'if you would lead a tranquil life.'
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I lived for nearly seven years with the awareness that death was my everyday companion.
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African Americans are one of the oldest ethnic groups in this country. We been here since the beginning. Before the beginning.
