Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
[Donald Trump] went on to, you know, otherize Muslims, otherize Latinos, otherize women, that he built out from that. And it can be true that a unique, you know, individual like Barack Obama can succeed in spite of that and still be the case that that force is quite, quite strong.
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I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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One definition of noir is where a not-so-good man or woman tries to touch something good - and fails.
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
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If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.
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I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.
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I read the paper every day and the Bible every day; that way I know what both sides are up to.
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Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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I have many weaknesses, but I have one strength. When I do something, I do it 300 percent. I'm not a middle man.
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I believe every translation is a process in which something is lost in the original precisely so that something is gained in the new text.
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Every town has become a border town and every State has become a border State.
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Now that I'm an adult and have a big say in what we eat on Christmas Day, turkey doesn't even make it on to the starting grid for consideration. It isn't just my least favourite meat; it's my least favourite protein.
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After the oil spill, I had this strong feeling that if I ever were to be blessed in having children, I never wanted my kids to see me pumping gas at a gas station. I think it's our responsibility to make the changes that we need to take regardless of convenience.
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It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
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[Donald Trump] went on to, you know, otherize Muslims, otherize Latinos, otherize women, that he built out from that. And it can be true that a unique, you know, individual like Barack Obama can succeed in spite of that and still be the case that that force is quite, quite strong.
