Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
We want to believe racism is an artifact of the past, and if you have a political massacre, that contradicts that.
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By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?
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I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, 'The Infinite Resource,' I talk about the power of innovation to save the world.
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I don't like going to the gym because I don't like being with people I don't know in that intense environment.
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I've had Botox. It hurts a lot, but I like it.
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Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.
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Whereas recessive traits require two bad copies of a gene to become noticeable, a dominant trait expresses itself no matter what the other copy does. A benign example of dominance: If you inherit one gene for sticky wet earwax and one gene for dry earwax, the sticky earwax gene wins out every time.
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These statements about torture, about alleged misuse of power and things like that, insulted the Filipinos more than their leader because it was made to appear as if Filipinos would tolerate a leader who would torture his own people, who would utilize his executive prerogatives for abuses.
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You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
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Bipartisanship is really tough to achieve when everyone on both sides is left with a bad, bad taste in their mouths.
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My most joy that I have is dancing.
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I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
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It's a matter of pride to me to get the film done fast, to get it done well. I understand the need for compromise. There is no such thing as a perfect shot, a perfect film. The purpose of film is not to make a monument to oneself.
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For me, it's very offensive when I notice that it's all about my appearance, how I look, that a man doesn't care who I am.
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Any talk of me engaging in a conspiracy against Pakistan is completely baseless.
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It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.
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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
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I had a dream cast when Dan first went off and wrote 'Ghostbusters 3' by himself. It was so long ago that my dream cast was Ben Stiller, Chris Farley, and Chris Rock. That would have been cool. Now, a lot of time has passed, and there are a lot of young funny people.
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.
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When I was between 2 and 3 years old, I got to know my first non-human being. The non-human was a cocker spaniel named Baba. We weren't friends, Baba and I, nor enemies. He wasn't my dog. He belonged to the people my mother worked for, and he lived in the house with them and us.
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Sorry, I don't eat any fast food. I believe in eating healthy organic foods for a better lifestyle.
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I don't write political plays in the sense that I'm writing essays that are kind of disguised as plays. I would really defy anyone to watch any of my plays and say 'Well, here's the point.'
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When you come back to a country that you've left, you're in a very peculiar situation because, in a way, you don't belong to that country any more, even though when I'm in America I feel I don't belong there either.
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We want to believe racism is an artifact of the past, and if you have a political massacre, that contradicts that.
