Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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I need to feel as if everything is clean and in its proper place before I can even attempt to write one word. At least, that's what I tell myself. I make the bed, I put away the dishes, maybe I dust, maybe I do the laundry, maybe I go to the post office.
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We can't go to courts in China, so we have to find alternate ways, like working with brands to try and create a level playing field by identifying the most obvious polluters.
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My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.
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I am happy with all the films I've done. I have not become the victim of an image. I have managed to do different roles, and I am proud of that.
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We talk about these legendary fighters, talk about how they had hundred-something fights, hundred-something victories... but when you look at the history books, I still beat more world champions than any fighter in history.
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I will be developing artists for my new label. The rest is in God's Hands.
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A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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I got thrust into some great things when I was really young.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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I wanted a personal-finance tool for people who didn't want to be accountants: something you could set up in ten minutes and spend less than five minutes a week on. Mint is now that tool.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I think I am at my best when my hair is short. It's easier to take care of and more of who I am. Women are conditioned to think we need long hair.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports.
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My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.
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I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.
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But the point is to get a whole new generation of people and people in general more re-engaged in news, and this has happened a lot since September 11th of course.
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We never discuss race in this country until something bad happens.
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My father was a World War II Marine who became a high school principal. He always had a heart for students who maybe were underprivileged or had difficulty of some sort.
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For 'Around the World in 80 Plates' we got to travel all over, having what was like a cross between a culinary competition and races. And in each country we had a chef Ambassador. We went to London, Barcelona, Bologna, Hong Kong, Thailand, Morocco... It was amazing.
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I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
