Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
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I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.
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I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.
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The Sparks have always been committed to success and making the right moves to build upon their rich tradition in the WNBA.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.
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I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
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It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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As a competitor, I want to continue to keep turning the chapters and keep challenging myself.
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Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
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My retiring days are behind me – they're going to have to throw me out now.
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Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.
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Working 40 hours a week used to mean a minimum standard of living and a foothold on the first rung of the economic ladder to the middle class.
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And I think the blessing of heaven is on Bush. It's just the way it is.
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I'm obsessed with getting married, but I don't even have a boyfriend.
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We can act as if there were a God; feel as if we were free; consider Nature as if she were full of special designs; lay plans as if we were to be immortal; and we find then that these words do make a genuine difference in our moral life.
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You know, I think the greatest gift in the world is a good employee, you know, or people who can do your work for you and do it well the way you'd like to have it done. And I've always been able to surround myself with really good people.
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It's important to study and understand your responsibilities within any profession, but it's particularly important for military officers to read, think, discuss, and write about the problem of war and warfare so they can understand not just the changes in the character of warfare but also the continuities.
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Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
