Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes

Addressing the moral failings of black people while ignoring the centuries-old failings of their governments amounts to a bait and switch.

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• I smoke, isn't that terrible?

  

  Kate Hudson
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• I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
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• For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Truth
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• A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Life
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• Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • People
  • High
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• A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.

  

  Gary Becker
  • Chinese
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  • Lead

• And since Italy was involved in the space station as well as signed an agreement with NASA. And when the possibility to enter the 1996 Mission Specialist class.

  

  Umberto Guidoni
  • Space
  • Class
  • Mission

• I love puppies, and I love animals in general. Besides that, I do martial arts: extreme martial arts. I also play real guitar and drums, and sing. And I'm taking some college classes, hoping to major in English and creative writing.

  

  Cameron Monaghan
  • Writing
  • Real
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• My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.

  

  Vanessa Marcil
  • Up
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• I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.

  

  Famke Janssen
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• I'm getting rid of this idea that you want people to like you. I'm making decisions on what feels right to me. To act in a more carnal way. That's my challenge.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • People
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• Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles, teaches us far more about humans than it does about animals - and the lesson is not a flattering one.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • People
  • Animals
  • Marine

• We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Time
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• There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Thinking
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• I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.

  

  Ted McGinley
  • Said
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• I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Up
  • Family
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• When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • Love
  • Feel

• I'm constantly trying to work on the person that I am and work on my shortcomings, and I guess I want people to know that it's ok to be a work in progress, as long as you keep trying to figure it out. But that search and that discovery is what makes life kind of rich, and it's what makes life rich... period.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Suppose you were working at your job one day, and you made a little mistake. Then all of a sudden a red light went on over your desk, and fifteen thousand people stood up and yelled at you that you sucked?

  

  Jacques Plante
  • People
  • Up
  • Job

• Even when people are rich and successful on TV shows, there's always some trouble - you have to poke holes in them, throw them out of a job, put a pie in the face.

  

  Drew Carey
  • People
  • Job
  • Trouble

• Even in India the Hindi film industry might be the best known but there are movies made in other regional languages in India, be it Tamil or Bengali. Those experiences too are different from the ones in Bombay.

  

  Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
  • Different

• The FBI and our entire government has become a bureaucracy. Sick, tired, and old as far as technology is concerned. This has to change.

  

  John McAfee
  • Technology
  • Tired
  • Sick

• Addressing the moral failings of black people while ignoring the centuries-old failings of their governments amounts to a bait and switch.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Black
  • Moral