Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
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I have selective hearing.
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'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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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.
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There's a whole element of human interaction and character interaction that I really enjoy doing.
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As an entrepreneur, you only fail when you give up.
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The United States is supplying the most modern and sophisticated weaponry to Israel to the tune of billions of dollars every year.
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2009 was crazy enough! I can't believe I worked with Jeremy Irons, Joan Allen, Marsha Mason, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury, Jack O'Brien and Trevor Nunn in the same 12 months.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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You've got the federal government in every part of our lives, doing things wrong.
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Dancing is something I do. Not something I just want to do. It's something I just do, depending on how I'm feeling. I don't see myself taking that as just a job.
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I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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I was at 260 at Tennessee because I was playing three-technique.
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I have long been interested in exploring and advancing the valuable relationships between the arts and society.
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Common man is always benefited by a rate cut.
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It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
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It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.
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I get involved with projects based on three parameters - the script, the actors involved and the director.
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I always wanted to be a doctor and go to art school, but I thought I'd regret it if I didn't act.
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I don't take a scene or word for granted.
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No matter how much leaves are fixed face to face they always look at each other aslant, whereas all fruits end up head-on however carelessly jumbled. A bunch of flowers is a house of colored cards. A heap of fruit is a hive of colored bees.
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The ties between the Obama White House and the hip-hop community are genuine.
