Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage. An unsegregated America might see poverty, and all its effects, spread across the country with no particular bias toward skin color. Instead, the concentration of poverty has been paired with a concentration of melanin.Ta-Nehisi Coates
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It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
Karl Kraus -
There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
Baruch Spinoza -
Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
Joanne Rowling -
The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
Vince Lombardi -
When you start writing songs on your own, there's no Bible, there's no one around you, so you're just writing, and you're left with, like, the dead space in your head to know if it's a good song or an interesting concept.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Carl Sagan
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I get breakfast when everyone else is on their lunch break. I usually go to Dimes, which is a short walk from my apartment. Usually, I'll have chia pudding or an acai bowl and toast and sausage.
Tavi Gevinson -
Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.
Harry Browne -
I have a little basement studio set up here at my house, and I do probably 80 percent of the recording here on my own. With multi-tracking technology, I can play various parts on top of one another.
Washed Out -
There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
Irvine Welsh -
When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?
Naomi Klein -
Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.
Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet -
Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.
Pat Summerall -
To anybody who says to me, 'I'm in character,' I say, 'You should be in an asylum.' If you don't know that you're pretending, then you should really seek medical help. I don't have patience for that stuff.
D. B. Sweeney -
Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.
Felix Dennis -
Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.
Nastassja Kinski -
For me, acting is a long-term thing. I'm not in a hurry to make it. I have no desire to explode onto the film industry. I still want to be acting when I'm 60.
Gabriella Wilde
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I don't believe in God, but I believe in angels.
Ariel Dorfman -
Laughter is by definition healthy.
Doris Lessing -
It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
Barbara Kingsolver -
My mother was a single mom whose days were spent as a customer service rep at Con Edison in downtown Brooklyn.
Jacqueline Woodson -
Start small, think big. Don’t worry about too many things at once. Take a handful of simple things to begin with, and then progress to more complex ones. Think about not just tomorrow, but the future. Put a ding in the universe.
Steve Jobs -
With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage. An unsegregated America might see poverty, and all its effects, spread across the country with no particular bias toward skin color. Instead, the concentration of poverty has been paired with a concentration of melanin.
Ta-Nehisi Coates