Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes

The president of the United States is not a king. You know? Barack Obama was elected by the American people.

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• It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • People
  • Important
  • Why

• I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • People
  • Important
  • Long

• Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Life
  • Money
  • Funny

• Even when Facebook came out, and I was in college, I found myself never putting anything on it.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • College
  • Myself
  • Never

• Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

  

  Ovid
  • Return
  • Wave
  • Nor

• I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Work
  • Money
  • Looking

• Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Guy
  • Nice
  • Thoughts

• My first audition happened to be for 'Kindergarten Cop,' and I took that role. I was only starting to learn English at that point. Spanish is my first language, so they made me a speaking character in the movie. I didn't really know I was shooting a movie. I was just having a lot of fun with 30 kids my own age.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Character
  • Kids
  • Movie

• I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Education
  • Attention
  • Brain

• Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Person
  • Mystery
  • Destination

• That's actually how my parents met. They were pen pals. My mom was in the Philippines and my father was in the States, and they wrote to each other. He went out to meet her, and they wed not too long after.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Long
  • Father
  • Parents

• If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Life
  • Real
  • Feedback

• The Wood was about young people and the other one is more of a grown up movie.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • People
  • Up
  • Movie

• I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.

  

  Nanci Griffith
  • Me
  • Story
  • View

• Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Evil
  • Human
  • Bed

• I would love to work with the great movie actors of our time.

  

  Omri Katz
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.

  

  Danica Patrick
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  • Size

• Like most conservatives, my path was a bit meandering. I grew up around people who mostly held conservative or libertarian views. The liberals I knew were fairly quiet about it, or at least I don't remember it being very heavy-handed.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Up
  • Remember

• The European vision is the United Nations' vision.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Vision
  • United Nations

• There was a break in the proceedings when Peter Greste was deported, and that was considered sufficient then to allow the executive to intervene.

  

  Amal Clooney

• It's a very big mental game, all day leading up to warm-ups. You're not sure if your curveball will break, or will you be able to throw it over the plate? It's all negative thoughts going into the game.

  

  Al Leiter
  • Up
  • Game
  • Thoughts

• Please God, I'll never be in a war zone, but everything I sort of know about people who come back is that it's a hard transition to make. I mean, even if you've not been in a war, even if you've just been in the Forces, you come back and probably have more fights in civilian life.

  

  Martin Freeman
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• We have, unlike many of our competitors, continued to meet our various financial obligations.

  

  Gerard Arpey
  • Financial
  • Obligation
  • Various

• The president of the United States is not a king. You know? Barack Obama was elected by the American people.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
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