Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes

I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism, but that other voice never fled from me.

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• Ultimately, I'm not the most prolific person, but I've been doing this for a long time, and I keep on putting out music. The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Soul
  • Thoughts
  • Language

• I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Win
  • Fight
  • Just

• I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Music
  • Age
  • Gift

• England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Nature
  • Accept
  • Human Nature

• The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • World
  • Good
  • Real

• Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • World
  • Opportunity
  • Powerful

• I always encourage over-tipping if you can afford it because... share the wealth.

  

  Zach Braff
  • You
  • Wealth
  • Share

• I may have more than one friend with benefits. It's very healthy for the heart. I think no matter how old you are - and I am pretty up there in terms of numbers - I think you should do whatever makes you happy.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • Heart
  • Happy
  • Pretty

• In my case, symptoms began to appear when I was only 57. In fact, the doctors believe early-onset Alzheimer's has a strong genetic predictor, and that it may have been progressing for some years before I was diagnosed.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Believe
  • May
  • Strong

• I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Love
  • She
  • Friend

• Falling in love, romance, matters of the heart - when you fall in love, on some biochemical level you know there is a chance it won't work out. It's ingrained in us that if you take such an enormous risk on someone with your heart that it might not pay off. I gamble all my chips and I might actually lose everything.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Work
  • Risk
  • Chance

• What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • People
  • Best
  • Ideas

• I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't even a twinkle in my eye. Because the book took as long as it did, I wrote it before I was pregnant, while I was pregnant, and as a new mother - so I enjoyed a diversity of experiences while creating this world.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • World
  • Long
  • Book

• Another example of that was that even during the economic problems of the 1945 government, we managed to carry out other aspects of our policy and other ideals. Through the establishment of national parks, for instance.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • Government
  • Problems
  • Carry

• There are regulators at the SEC and elsewhere who are really excited about the potential of the blockchain. They understand you can build a robust financial system - it would solve all your black swan problems. All kinds of mischief and games that are played in the current system become impossible in this system.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Black
  • Financial
  • Potential

• Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • New
  • Priority
  • Creating

• There are certain things that can be asked that get me excited. It's never a thing where I think I'm too good, I'm just the type of person who likes to be enlightened. I don't like to go through the motions.

  

  Wale
  • Good
  • Think
  • Me

• What most paintings do is give you a path for your eye to move around. The painting actually tells your eye, go here, now go here, now go here, go here. So all you have to do is look at it, give it a few seconds, and your eye will start to move through the painting.

  

  David Salle
  • Path
  • Painting
  • Start

• I don't feel drawn to lightness, I need something more. I feel that - oh, I hate saying this, it sounds so wanky - but I feel a real urge to give voices to people we don't usually hear from in real life.

  

  Kate Dickie
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• If I don't think about it, it won't drive me crazy.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Think
  • Me
  • Crazy

• I've seen a lot of people buy my books and then fall asleep on the plane soon afterwards.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Fall
  • Books

• The god is the beautiful.

  

  Plato
  • Beautiful
  • God Is

• I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism, but that other voice never fled from me.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Poetry
  • Start
  • Ambition