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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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 know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.
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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
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Our ages ranged from 22, down to 18, and we had a 6 month contract to go to Bogata, Columbia. And of course, it was during the depression, we were still with our parents, and things were still pretty tough on them back in the United States.
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Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isn't in the tabloids once a week they feel like a failure.
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Pope John Paul II himself was kind of a rather independent, creative man. I remember being told by somebody who worked very close with him in preparation for his first visit to the United States in 1979, he studied our normative documents, Declaration of Independence, the Federalist Papers, the Constitution. And he was amazed. He called his priests first thing in the morning and he said, he said, I thought America was a pagan country.
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The country in which reparations actually happen is a very different one than the one we live in.
