Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes

My belief is in the chaos of the world and that you have to find your peace within the chaos and that you still have to find some sort of mission.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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• I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

  

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• Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.

  

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• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

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• The Department of Justice will continue to pursue those that travel to fight against the United States and our allies, as well as those individuals that recruit others on behalf of ISIL in the homeland.

  

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• I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.

  

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• As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.

  

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• If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.

  

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• I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'

  

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• In 1956, I received an invitation to a dedication of an observatory in the Soviet Union, in Soviet Armenia, as a guest of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.

  

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• Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.

  

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• We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.

  

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• Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.

  

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• Video games and YouTube.com are creatively booming, even though Web design, as demonstrated by the ugly clutter of most major news sites, is in the pits.

  

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• When you're really close to someone, they can make fun of you a lot and get away with it. But they sort of poke you in all of the right places.

  

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• I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.

  

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• I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.

  

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• People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather then how famous you are.

  

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• I've loved being the sarcastic chick, but I didn't want to be her forever.

  

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• It was an opportunity to spend some time together, have some fun to create some music and an opportunity for Kenny and me to sit down and do some things we wanted to do, ... The time was right and here we are.

  

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• I traveled to Morocco once, and I only saw one television when I was there, but I did go into this dirt cave and I saw this kid chopping tomatoes and pita, and he had a picture on the wall of Jean-Claude Van Damme holding a gun. That connected with him on the other side of the world, so no wonder these big movies are made - they have a mass appeal.

  

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• I'm addicted to perfection. Problem with my life is I was always also addicted to chaos. Perfect chaos.

  

  Mike Tyson
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• You don't sleep anymore, but at the same time, you have this strength that comes from this life that has just arrived. It's a big cliche how your priorities change, but every parent knows that sometimes there's a thunderstorm, and you look at his eyes, and everything is all right. It is a revolution of everything you feel.

  

  Marion Cotillard
  • Life
  • Time
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• My belief is in the chaos of the world and that you have to find your peace within the chaos and that you still have to find some sort of mission.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • Peace
  • Chaos