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.
Fetty Wap -
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.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem -
Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
Federico Fellini -
The director had come to Madrid to court me.
Victoria Abril -
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.
Rafe Spall -
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.
Aaron Sorkin
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We need to see a Palestinian state.
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi -
Our career had a sort of funny shape.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.
Patrick Demarchelier -
With experience, you improve. I'm a better player now, more complete than I was when I was player of the year.
Eden Hazard -
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.
Nancy Wake -
As long as I love Beauty I am young.
W. H. Davies
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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.
Gail Sheehy -
Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
Lady Gregory -
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.
Nate Parker -
BitCoin is actually an exploit against network complexity. Not financial networks, or computer networks, or social networks. Networks themselves.
Dan Kaminsky -
I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
Orson Welles -
People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal drummer. I mean, they're playing with the same amount of ferocity. It's not to say all jazz is like that.
Damien Chazelle
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When I was younger, there were moments where I said, 'I'm not going to have children.' And then moments when I wanted four. And now I definitely want another, but I don't know when.
Beyonce Destiny's Child -
White people’s number one freedom, in the United States of America, is the freedom to be totally ignorant of those who are other than white. We don’t have to learn about those who are other than white. And our number two freedom is the freedom to deny that we’re ignorant.
Jane Elliott -
I want to empower and educate and inspire individuals who are giving to give in a way that is more meaningful. The more meaningful our giving is, the more giving we will do.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen -
Dogs like to learn stuff, if not from another dog, then people are OK... They love activity, playing, interesting walks, and just belonging, being together.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas -
We talk about issues, but I'm not his adviser, I'm his wife... I find that it's really best not to give your spouse a lot of advice. I don't want a lot of advice from him.
Laura Bush -
I don't completely understand why people in Aspen want to hear what I have to say.
Ta-Nehisi Coates