Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
Black people have been fighting for basic citizenship rights since the inception of the country.
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I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.
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I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.
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It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.
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I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn't.
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All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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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.
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Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.
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Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
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I'm very comfortable as a singer. In fact, I think it's more - I identified my self-esteem, my self more in those ways when I was growing up. I really - it was kind of my calling card as a kid.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown.
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People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.
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Was this an old disease, and, if so, which one? If it was new, what did that say about the state of medical knowledge? And in any case, how could physicians make sense of it?
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Modeling is a job. Even my mum doesn't believe that I do work hard.
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That's a beautiful thing. The more successful you are, the more people are going to come and be a part of music.
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A number of people in the United States, almost everyone, is using plastic cards to pay for things, but it's extremely difficult to accept these cards. So let's make it's easy and take more and more of the friction out as we can.
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I'm convinced that quite a lot of young people, when they get in trouble with the law, it's a cry for help there. Because it's not that they go out to offend. It's that their behaviour is self-parading, it's the big 'I'. And sometimes that means they're really lacking in confidence.
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Black people have been fighting for basic citizenship rights since the inception of the country.
