Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.
Jack Prelutsky
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If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.
Olivia Wilde
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In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I do best.
Gareth Gates
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IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they're working on, what they're doing. The problem was that you were bound to the computer keyboard.
Jack Dorsey
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Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It's an extension of being out in the back yard with a stick, only you're being paid to do it. It's borderline madness.
Ioan Gruffudd
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We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
Hans Urs von Balthasar
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I don't like crazy names. I don't like them. I don't think it makes any sense. You have to think about the child and, as they get older, what they have to deal with. A lot of people do things as a fad, and they want to get some attention, but it's like, this is your child.
Laila Ali
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You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
L'Wren Scott
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Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye.
Vidal Sassoon
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Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well.
Gavin Newsom
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I've had horrible days where you wake up with a zit, and you have to film, and it's terrible.
Ed Oxenbould
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I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy.
Taraji P. Henson
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Movement inspires a lot in me.
Payal Kadakia
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As you know, I am neither Roman Catholic, Protestant Episcopalian, nor Presbyterian, nor am I an Irishman.
John Bright
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
Yiannis Chryssomallis
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Celebrity culture is an aspirational culture regardless of how much you don't want it to be.
Paloma Faith
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Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional.
Donald Berwick
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It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
