Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
My mom used to tell me, I can't use this phrase on the radio - but basically don't be one of those dudes hanging on the corner.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I know all the critics.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of the fighting.
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Corruption is everywhere. It's not just in the Congress. Corruption is not just your prerogative or mine.
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I've always wanted to do a period piece.
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The Internet has turned the world into one gigantic linked community, capable of instantly sharing vast amounts of incorrect information.
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I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.
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Sorrel adds a unique grassy sharpness to salads and dressings, but it can be hard to come by.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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One of the things I've learned with doing 'xkcd' is that you sort of give people, 'Here's the thing, and here's the button you can press to get another thing.' Sometimes that can be more easy to digest than, 'Here's a long page of things.'
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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There's something so great about being with your nephew and, when you're tired, just handing him off back to your sister.
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Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
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When I'm performing, I'm not even thinking about the song. I'm thinking about the audience.
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It's all about learning your craft and honing it in and really paying attention to people who are doing it and what their advice is. It's like anything: it takes years and years and years. A lot of it comes down to work ethic.
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There is simply not enough money available to support a system in which the lion's share of expenditures is devoted to acute care, with virtually nothing being spent on preventive medicine, i.e. health care.
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We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way.
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'Smallville' gig was another one of those things I got through WWE. At that point, I had absolutely no aspirations to pursue acting.
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Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits.
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My mom used to tell me, I can't use this phrase on the radio - but basically don't be one of those dudes hanging on the corner.
