Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
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My role is to embody the Black Opium woman - I suppose you have to be the living embodiment of all the intangible things the brand stands for.
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I'm a little bit awkward on Twitter; like, I'm never really sure what to say.
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As people's opportunities to succumb to confirmation bias increases online - only seeking out information that confirms their prejudices - ignorance, extremism and close-mindedness have continued to rise unabated.
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I'm not a very technical musician at all.
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Because I had a lot of emotional upheaval in my life, I'm attracted to stories about characters whose lives are full of wounds and secrets. I'm not interested in who's going to ask me to the prom. I never went to a prom.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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The real challenge is if you don't look super sexy, like a Brad Pitt, you're going to have to try harder. You're going to have to make up for it in other ways.
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You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.
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America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.
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The pace of television is very different from film.
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It has seemed, at times, like American carmakers think car buyers are so blindly loyal that they will keep coming back - despite the sticker shock - for crummy cars that guzzle gas, fall apart too soon, and cost too much to repair.
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I shot 'Girl' about three weeks after I finished 'The Magnificent Seven.'
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I think if you're everyone's cup of tea, that probably means you're a little bit boring, or you're not pushing yourself. Creativity happens where it's dangerous and scary: where you're not comfortable.
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I mean there are many people who have endorsed me that I agree with on some things and not others.
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I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And I believe in the new, because it gives us the opportunity to create who we are becoming.
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We, Will Ferrell and I, were approached by Sequoia, which is a big financing firm up in Palo Alto; they do a lot of Internet stuff, and they came to us and said they had an idea for a comedy site, and Will and I were sorta like, 'Yeah, we don't know. It's the Internet, we've seen it come and go.'
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I used to visit London when I was younger with my family. I feel very close to the city.
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I have worked for three decades as a staunch advocate of building a 'big tent' party that includes both pro-choice and pro-life Republicans.
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I'd say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And they're meant to be one of the most dangerous animals on the planet, and they had one that was sort of just wandering in and out of their house, just sort of roaming about.
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It's so lovely to know that people who you would never think know about Bollywood, they know about Bollywood.
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I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.
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I never made lots of money at it, but I sold enough.
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I have never read 'To Kill A Mockingbird.'
