Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
The country in which reparations actually happen is a very different one than the one we live in.
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Home court changes everything. If you have home court, you're expected to win.
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Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.
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I'd like to scale back the television. I'm constantly told that I'm over-exposed, and I don't want to end up like Carol Vorderman.
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Exercise helps my back. If I don't exercise, that's when it starts to hurt. The pain is a good motivator to run and exercise.
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I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.
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He's an honest man - you could shoot craps with him over the telephone.
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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
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Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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From early morning to late at night, it's such an interesting life, and I'm healthy and free, and that's not so easy with a family.
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I've been fighting amidst a lot of opposition from both Hillary Clinton as well as some Republicans who wanted to send arms to the allies of ISIS. ISIS rides around in a billion dollars worth of U.S. Humvees. It's a disgrace. We've got to stop - we shouldn't fund our enemies, for goodness sakes.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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Most Americans are more concerned about the economy and job creation. And they can't understand why the Obama administration or the Democrat majority in Congress wants to pass a bill like the cap-and-trade tax that will cost us jobs, that will hurt our economy, that will drive up costs for families, as well as for small businesses.
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Two days after returning from Montreal, I was training again, and I went on to win two more golds at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
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Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.
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I'm the best Twitterer.
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Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.
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I don't love horror movies with something surreal happening. That doesn't work for me. What's terrifying is something that could actually happen to me and what I would do. I don't know how to throw a punch, and I've never had to do it.
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My responsibility to God is to live. That's the gift he gave me.
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I'm an old-fashioned girl. And I love gospel. I like things that lift me up, inspire me.
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You can only live to be so old, then you gotta let go.
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The country in which reparations actually happen is a very different one than the one we live in.
