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 want to be a major force.
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Your map of Africa is really quite nice. But my map of Africa lies in Europe. Here is Russia, and here... is France, and we're in the middle - that's my map of Africa.
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Life lives; and in the living flow, no questions are raised. The reason is that life is a living now! So, in order to live life whole-heartedly, the answer is life simply is.
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It’s always easy to blame others. You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes or failures are entirely your own responsibility. You can try to stop time, but it’s a complete waste of energy.
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Government acquisition of food supplies in time of war is no less important than conscription. Equity is the fundamental principle applicable to both these essential phases of war administration.
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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.
