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.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Home
  • Win
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• Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Art
  • Criticism

• 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.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Up
  • Want
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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.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Good
  • Pain
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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.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Family
  • College
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• He's an honest man - you could shoot craps with him over the telephone.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Man
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  • Telephone

• Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.

  

  Mae West
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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.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
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• Leaving all the glamour and air-kissing aside, at the end of the day, fashion is about operations and getting things done. The best way to be successful, therefore, is to learn from the people who do it best.

  

  Imran Amed
  • People
  • Done
  • Day

• 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.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Trying
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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.

  

  Olav Thon
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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.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Stop
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  • Goodness

• There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • 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.

  

  Haley Barbour
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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.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Training
  • Win
  • Again

• Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Me
  • Crazy
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• I'm the best Twitterer.

  

  Dan Carter
  • Best

• Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Work
  • Try
  • Playground

• We want kids to value real food and understanding that it isn't just about feeding people but about nourishing the body, the community and the planet.

  

  Kimbal Musk
  • People
  • Real
  • Kids

• I was working at a restaurant, I booked the role in 'Twilight,' put in my two weeks' notice, got fitted, flew to Portland, filmed, and then it started getting hype. That helped me get my foot into certain doors before the movie even came out.

  

  Ashley Greene
  • Movie
  • Twilight

• No writer for the press, however humble, is free from the burden of keeping his purpose high and his integrity white.

  

  John Boyle O'Reilly
  • High
  • Free
  • Purpose

• If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Live
  • Alone

• I think if you work with different kinds of codes, attitudes, in the end you have a language. It's like within a person. You are not always the same.

  

  Alessandro Michele
  • Work
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• The country in which reparations actually happen is a very different one than the one we live in.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
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