Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
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I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
Ed Westwick -
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
Samuel Butler -
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
Harriet Beecher Stowe -
I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.
Saint Patrick -
I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
Barbara Sukowa -
I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and... everybody's hot.
Paris Hilton
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It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.
Eddie Rickenbacker -
I needed to take a break from performing, and from the Peas, to be happy. I craved female time, and time with my husband to feed my soul. My life now is about being balanced. I'm passionate about work and working out, seeing friends and family, and letting my hair down once in a while.
Fergie The Black Eyed Peas -
We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
Rakul Preet Singh -
I had more friends on my hockey team than I did on my soccer team. I might have been better at soccer, to be honest. But I think it was more the friendship, and my family was more of a hockey family than a soccer family, so when I had to make a decision, I tried hockey, and it turned out to be a good decision.
Carl Hagelin -
You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore -
I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.
Natalia Vodianova
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Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
Jackie Chan -
With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.
Candice Millard -
I love Channing Tatum!
Zendaya -
If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.
G. M. Trevelyan -
The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.
Walter Pater -
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
Lao Tzu
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It is a changing world with changing opportunities.
Natalie Massenet -
Nothing in the world was more terrible than an empty bottle! Unless it was an empty glass.
Malcolm Lowry -
They say love is blind, but it’s trauma that’s blind. Love sees what is.
Neil Strauss -
I was so afraid to even read a paper in front of my classmates. It is very funny because at that point my teachers would never have believed that I could speak in front of an audience of over 2,000 people.
Petra Nemcova -
Fiction makes your dreams come true, and, as a writer, fiction allows you to delve into the area of miracles.
James McBride -
I had no expectations of white people at all.
Ta-Nehisi Coates