Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
I write what I write in the way that I write it. I'm not being abstract, you know. I'm talking about something that, you know, is a part of my life.
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.
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Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.
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Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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Matt Weiner is very perceptive; there's something about the rhythms and the way people speak that is very authentic to the actor. But there are qualities that are dissimilar. The characters on 'Mad Men' are struggling with pretty profound unhappiness, but I can tell you this is a happy bunch.
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But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things - to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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I've got a nice car. I love my job. I've got a bagel store, and I have breakfast every morning with friends I grew up with. I've been in movies, I've written books - I don't know how that all happened.
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I've banged my head quite a bit. I liked Iron Maiden, Ozzy, AC/DC. And of course, Ratt and Poison.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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I'm not the type to lay out on the beach, but I do love to work out outside, and that can really take a toll on your skin!
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I love being a father. It's one of my big jobs is just being a parent. It's one of my favorite things I do.
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.
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I know I had been successful in football. I had been successful in broadcasting. I didn't think that anything could touch me. I thought, I can beat anything.
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It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.
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I have spent my life on the road waking in a pleasant, or not so pleasant hotel, and setting off every morning after breakfast hoping to discover something new and repeatable, something worth writing about.
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Newborn screening is a public health intervention that involves a simple blood test used to identify many life-threatening genetic illnesses before any symptoms begin.
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My own personal tweets are very limited. I think I have, like, 68 followers on my personal Twitter.
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I write what I write in the way that I write it. I'm not being abstract, you know. I'm talking about something that, you know, is a part of my life.
