Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
Rates of black poverty have decreased. Black teen-pregnancy rates are at record lows - and the gap between black and white teen-pregnancy rates has shrunk significantly. But such progress rests on a shaky foundation, and fault lines are everywhere.Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
Isaac Asimov -
I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
E. O. Wilson -
New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section.
Barbara Cook -
I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
Candice Olson -
I put my friends and family first. I'm really just a normal thirteen-year-old girl who has a different hobby than most girls my age. Acting is kind of an extracurricular activity.
Natasha Calis -
I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.
Mal Peet
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
Adam Cohen -
I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
Sam Taylor-Wood -
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
Gary Lineker -
I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
Taylor Sheridan -
Actor's life is very long.
Jackie Chan
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We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
M. H. Abrams -
There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts.
Beck -
When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?
Naomi Klein -
I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
Yoko Ono -
I went from a player who was never fit to a person who actually worked hard to get myself in shape.
Carli Lloyd -
The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.
Orison Swett Marden
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When I was in my 20s, I wanted to be tough. I discovered that I didn't want to be the woman I was raised to be - a good, traditional wife. When I went out in the world to find a husband, I found that husbands weren't ready to accept the kind of woman I was going to be.
Angeles Mastretta -
Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
Ogden Nash -
The Black Panther Party was not a gang. They grew out of a young black intelligentsia on college campuses.
Bobby Seale -
It's very rare you get a great script just handed to you, or sent to you, by someone you don't know.
Viggo Mortensen -
At my school, when kids went into the army at 16, they didn't do it in a gung-ho, Tom Cruise, 'Born on the Fourth of July' way. They were generally - and I hope this doesn't offend them - the more vulnerable members of the class. They enlisted seeking family, and they didn't always find it.
Jack Thorne -
Rates of black poverty have decreased. Black teen-pregnancy rates are at record lows - and the gap between black and white teen-pregnancy rates has shrunk significantly. But such progress rests on a shaky foundation, and fault lines are everywhere.
Ta-Nehisi Coates