Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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We have to reappropriate the concept of laicite (secularism) so we can explain to our young pupils that whatever their faith, they belong to this idea, and they're not excluded. Secularism is not something against them; it protects them.
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Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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When you do a film, you get picked up in a car, lunch is free. Theatre is really hard, and you get absolutely no money.
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I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.
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We need to see a Palestinian state.
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In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.
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Our career had a sort of funny shape.
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When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.
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With experience, you improve. I'm a better player now, more complete than I was when I was player of the year.
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I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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I found that female pathfinders generally integrate characteristics commonly associated with being women - like the capacity to be intimate - with 'male' ones like ambition and courage.
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
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Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
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Any psychologist will tell you that healing comes from honest confrontation with our injury or with our past. Whatever that thing is that has hurt us or traumatized us, until we face it head on, we will have issues moving forward in a healthy way.
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BitCoin is actually an exploit against network complexity. Not financial networks, or computer networks, or social networks. Networks themselves.
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Since you knew they was goin' to cheat you anyway, I recorded under any name with all of 'em.
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It was all very well to be ambitious, but ambition should not kill the nice qualities in you.
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I don't see why I should be a dame for just doing what I always wanted to do.
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While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.
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I'm a little hesitant to make my characters sentimental or to risk having the work labeled sentimental. It's something that I resist as a reader, and I don't resist it in life. I'm not an unmoved person by any stretch, but I think I don't want, I guess, to indulge those kinds of things sometimes in fiction. I can't tell you why exactly.
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I don't completely understand why people in Aspen want to hear what I have to say.
