Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
I feel like my job is to look at the world and to report what I see, to write what I see as honestly and directly as I can. I don't want to cut it or make it easy, but be as direct as I can.
Quotes to Explore
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Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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I adore Eddie Kaye Thomas and Jason Biggs. Eddie was the only one who called me when they were doing 'American Reunion' and told me, 'You need to do this.'
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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The degree that these scenes went to... there was a couple of days I was upset... I'd have to hurry back to the girls in the makeup trailer and have a bit of a cry because it messes with your head.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I get homesick.
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So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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We solve last year's problems without thinking about the future.
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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
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I think a lot of us feel the need to always be connected, and finding time to relax and sometimes play is something that I think we all need to make more time for, especially me.
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I used to love to create outfits, and I still do - I just don't have the time. How can you wear one thing and never wear it again? Even my wedding dress - I had a dress made that I could wear again. I'm a child of the depression, so I'm very, very practical.
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I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.
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I decide my future. I decide what I want to do. Nobody else. If I decide this will be my last year, maybe it is. If I decide it will be my last contract, I decide that. Nobody else. So I will decide when the moment is there.
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My lips are chapped from the winds of change.
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It's a compulsion. I'm always changing parts of me. Even when I was young, I wanted to change my hair color. I was so determined that I dyed my hair with Kool-Aid.
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The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.
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While I'm optimistic about the direction the world is headed, generally, I think there is a need for constant vigilance and pressure on repressive governments.
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But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
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I feel like my job is to look at the world and to report what I see, to write what I see as honestly and directly as I can. I don't want to cut it or make it easy, but be as direct as I can.
