Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
In Richard Wright, Dad found a literature of himself. He'd read Manchild in the Promised Land and Another Country, but from Wright he learned that there was an entire shadow canon, a tradition of writers who grabbed the pen, not out of leisure but to break the chain.Ta-Nehisi Coates
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
B. F. Skinner -
During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.
Questlove -
Terrorism will spill over if you don't speak up.
Malala Yousafzai -
Obama has been well-received on the world stage, but that doesn't help him operate domestically.
Carl Forti -
I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
Carlos Ponce -
Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.
Barbara Hershey
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For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important.
Felicity Kendal -
The creative scientific process is - It's kind of - It's a windy road that has a trajectory, but it's a slow trajectory.
Pardis Sabeti -
Tackling malaria in a country like the Central African Republic is a huge uphill battle, and my experiences there have been a healthy dose of reality, fueling my own sense of urgency to do my part in reducing the preventable suffering of the incredible women I met.
Mandy Moore -
I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
Gavin Newsom -
Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
Ian Frazier -
Well, you know, you're not going to have 86 percent of Congress voted out of office.
Nate Silver
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I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.
Harriet Tubman -
If you ask me, over time, I am a believer in the Indian financial saving story getting stronger; a lot more savers are moving money away from gold and real estate into banks, mutual funds, insurance and equities.
Uday Kotak -
I just think political correctness is crap.
Gary Oldman -
'Miele' is a code name for a girl who has a double life.
Valeria Golino -
I love a vintage look that's also a bit rock n' roll.
Cara Delevingne -
I think God has a sense of humor, and the way my lessons come from God is very funny. I have to laugh at myself even if it's a tough lesson.
Yvette Nicole Brown
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
Pat Conroy -
The dreamer must contaminate the others by his dream, he must make them fall into it
Jean-Paul Sartre -
I've run into a lot of companies that invent positions for great people just so they don't get away. But hiring people when you don't have real work for them is insulting to them and hurtful to you.
Jason Fried -
Life is God's gift to us. What we do with it is our gift to God.
A. R. Bernard -
People do look at it as an insult that I say I don't listen to country music, which cracks me up.
Natalie Maines -
In Richard Wright, Dad found a literature of himself. He'd read Manchild in the Promised Land and Another Country, but from Wright he learned that there was an entire shadow canon, a tradition of writers who grabbed the pen, not out of leisure but to break the chain.
Ta-Nehisi Coates