Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
Fighting, I guess, was never the real reason I read comic books as a kid. The fighting was an important part, an integral part of it; I don't know I would've read it without it.
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
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Two successive commissioners in London police were fired by the mayor that came into office. That doesn't mean the police in London is not independent and does not exercise powers. Ultimately it is the political executive that has to answer.
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But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.
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Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
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I'm probably less volatile and tempestuous than a lot of Aries, but I think I'm probably quite loud and outgoing and passionate. Maybe a bit difficult or stubborn.
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I trust every lead in every department. All of the teams are phenomenal artists. All I need to tell them is why to do something, not how to do something.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
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I never had crushes on anybody when I was younger; I really didn't.
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When I was a kid, I was super shy.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I used to come up with these crazy jobs to try and provoke my parents but they said, 'You can be anything you want.' So I was like, 'I want to be a garbage man' and they were like 'That's OK, we'll still love you!'
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I love songs that people can dance to and enjoy at the same time.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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I am neither left wing nor right wing. I am middle-of-the-bird.
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I'm sad I'm not in 'The Purge 2.'
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Make it your profitable habit to carefully study facial expressions. You can see the entire human drama in a face; you can tell its owner's history.
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I had worked my whole life. Until I became a mother, that's the only way I measured my value.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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CEOs resign when the internal dynamics of the company and the external dynamics of the company actually come together to say it is appropriate. When the internal dynamics ask you whether you have a replacement. I think the transition from CEOships have also become cartoonish.
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Fighting, I guess, was never the real reason I read comic books as a kid. The fighting was an important part, an integral part of it; I don't know I would've read it without it.
