Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
Everybody thinks that an important book has to be a big, long book.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Quotes to Explore
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If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know?
V. S. Naipaul
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I've waited so long to get to this point, and I'm so happy to be making my first album. I want to be a performer and an entertainer.
Fleur East
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
Pat Barker
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Remember that we are all human beings trying to do what we love to do.
Zendaya
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I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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We have to be aware that fossil fuel energy sources have an expiry date. A timeframe of 30, 40 or 50 years can seem a long time to get rewards for economic policy, but it's only a short time for implementing a new energy policy.
Carlo Rubbia
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.
Danai Gurira
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Our critics would love nothing more for us to go away and just be quiet. And we won't give them that satisfaction. We have young children that, one day, when they understand more of what's happened and what's transpired, we wanna be able to say to them, you know, we did our best. And we told the truth.
Valerie Plame
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Sometimes I see through things when people are talking. I'm really sensitive to other people, so I can tell if somebody's putting on a front.
Banks
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
Baruch Spinoza
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One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India, Nelson Mandela in South Africa are examples of people standing up with courage and non-violence to bring about needed changes.
Jack Canfield