Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
Humans also tend to find community to be pleasurable, and within the boundaries of community relationships, words - often ironic and self-deprecating - are always spoken that take on other meanings when uttered by others.
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To preserve our sovereign integrity, we must prove to them nobody need tell us how to hold a clean and democratic election.
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As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.
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One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
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I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.
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I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
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The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
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It's a huge step up from the European Indoor Championships to being world outdoor gold medallist.
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Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.
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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
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I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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All you needed back then was a blow dryer and a dream.
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I tell people that we must have the courage to share what we feel, but no one follows me.
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I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way.
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I love the 2000s because everyone started to love haute couture.
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Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyhow.
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If you're constantly making business decisions on behalf of your investors first, ultimately you're going to wear down your other stakeholders. It's going to be potentially hurtful for your employees and your customers and the community you do business with.
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There are three types of words: words we all know, words we should know, and words nobody knows. Don't use the third category.
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Humans also tend to find community to be pleasurable, and within the boundaries of community relationships, words - often ironic and self-deprecating - are always spoken that take on other meanings when uttered by others.
