Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
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I am very lucky to be surrounded and guided by an incredible support team comprised of my family and agents.
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I loved getting to Chagrin Falls, being by the falls; what a cute place it is.
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And that's the way it is.
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'I Will Follow' is a celebration of life. Sometimes when you lose something, you understand its value more than when you had it. The same is true for life.
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Vulnerable young women are being brainwashed by the radical lies of ISIS militants in the Middle East.
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I like the idea of acting. Of all these things I've done, sometimes I think I've done well, and sometimes I think I didn't do well, but they are more cameos, and I come in and be crazy.
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If you don't feel good in it, don't wear it. Because it'll never look good. Any hesitation in the fitting room and just walk away.
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If I get to spoil myself, I'm going to DQ. I always had it growing up, so I stick to it.
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Part of the new morality of the '60s and '70s is a new attitude toward homosexuality. The homosexual men and women have organized to fight for acceptance and respectability.
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You promote your films; it's part of your job. You do the magazine covers and stuff, and then I try to live a really normal life. I definitely don't try to make it into any more craziness than it is.
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The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
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My hair's naturally dirty-dishwater light brown. Ugly.
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To me, a drop of oil paint or a xerographic dot are the same thing – they're all just language.
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At this point, I don’t need my records to be Number One or sell as many as this person or that person. That’s not fundamentally important - I don’t believe that sustains you.
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I have travelled and been pretty much a one man operation for most of my career, and I think it'll continue to be that way.
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I am an atheist... I don't understand religion at all. I'm sure I'll offend a lot of people by saying this, but I think it's all nonsense.
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It is a very common failing, never to be pleased with our fortune nor displeased with our character.
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Von Neumann languages do not have useful properties for reasoning about programs. Axiomatic and denotational semantics are precise tools for describing and understanding conventional programs, but they only talk about them and cannot alter their ungainly properties. Unlike von Neumann languages, the language of ordinary algebra is suitable both for stating its laws and for transforming an equation into its solution, all within the "language."
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The abundance you desire to experience must first be an experience in your mind.
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Even though the society that Marx foresaw is far from being an historical reality, Marxism has penetrated so deeply in history that we are all Marxists, one way or another, even unknowingly.
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New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world . . . are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite the taxi driver.
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I've seen, and liked, 'Insecure' and 'Atlanta.'
