Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes

I would flip this the other way and say over 90 percent of African-Americans voted against Donald Trump.

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• It's not a monster movie. It's a supernatural thriller.

  

  Ed Wood
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• Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
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• Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out and really bare it all, and hopefully you don't fall off the plank. And if you do, hey, pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again.

  

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• To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.

  

  Karl Shapiro
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• I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.

  

  Barbra Streisand
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• Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Control
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• Topshop is the only brand I've ever collaborated with on a fashion collection.

  

  Kate Moss
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• The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

  

  Babasaheb
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  • Relationship
  • Wife

• I don't feel under-taxed in any way at all.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Way
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• For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Reading
  • Hands
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• For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
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• Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.

  

  Patrick Macnee
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• When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Different
  • American
  • America

• From my experience in working with bureaucrats and politicians, if you are a credible business group, they will definitely help you. At the end of the day, they, too, want development of their constituency, state or country.

  

  Gautam Adani
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• In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court.

  

  Pat Brown
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• The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.

  

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• More and more people are finally realizing that in the heart of America, there's all this incredible music that wasn't widely heard before because it wasn't in the interest of those who feel they have to control the taste of the wider public.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • People
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• Our parents have, by far, the greatest influence on shaping who we are and how we deal with the world.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • World
  • Parents
  • Influence

• At one time, when I was eight years old, my mother and father, my brother and my sisters - we had to move back in with my grandmother, and there were 13 of us living in one house.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • Time
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• We were about ready to go out on the road with Maiden, and Kerrang asked us to do an Iron Maiden tribute song. While we were home, we recorded that. And that was it.

  

  Johnny Christ
  • Home
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  • Road

• Obviously, many people may remember me as the first winner of 'The Apprentice,' but prior to that, I was an entrepreneur. I started my first business when I was in college, and then getting my lucky break was when Donald Trump hired me on.

  

  Bill Rancic
  • People
  • May
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• I would flip this the other way and say over 90 percent of African-Americans voted against Donald Trump.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Trump