Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
You don't make a case for reparations thinking, 'Oh yeah, people are gonna love this.' I didn't see that coming.
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Broadway is really my life.
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My grandfather milked several cows twice a day and supplied the neighbours with dairy products. He liked to go visiting around the county on Saturdays, and he also enjoyed the neighbours when they came by once a week with their empty milk jars. He walked them out to their cars and hung over the driver's side window until they drove off.
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I never thought I would be standing here, married to an All-American guy, living in Oklahoma. What a country.
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I want someone who will love me for the person I am and not because of my status. It has to be someone who understands the pressure of playing for India. It will be very difficult to be with a person who has her own career because someone has to make sacrifices for the family and house.
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There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
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How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
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I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.
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Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy.
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It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
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I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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Intelligence is sexy. Don't play dumb, especially young girls. Don't play dumb. And let people see that you are intelligent.
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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I know that for me, a lot of people will look at me and they'll think 'Somali' or 'outsider' instead of 'Minnesota.'
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Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.
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Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
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The present is what slips by us while we're pondering the past and worrying about the future.
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Blessings don’t come from outside, but from within. Whatever blessings we receive are the result of our own efforts and positive actions.
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Some people are marching together and some on their own. Others are running, the smaller ones crawl. But some sit in silence.
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All of the stuff I can't afford to do on a TV budget, I just put into the comic book because you're really only limited in a comic by your artist's imagination.
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Sing again, with your dear voice revealing A tone Of some world far from ours, Where music and moonlight and feeling Are one.
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You don't make a case for reparations thinking, 'Oh yeah, people are gonna love this.' I didn't see that coming.
