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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What made me want to become a recording artist; I was the first artist that was repeatedly asked by a label to record with them. That label was Def Jam Records.
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I get the headlines for being slick and different things like that - which is part of my game - but it's just amazing to me that a lot of times, the people don't see the other things that go on in that ring. But a lot of times, when my opponents figure it out, the fight is over. It's too late.
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Argentina and Burma. I have been to most of the countries in the world, but not those two. I want to shoot doves in Argentina. Burma, of course, because no one has really been there.
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The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.
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We're not going to see an exclusively robotic factory, but we will see the optimum use of robots and people.
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Black people have been fighting for basic citizenship rights since the inception of the country.
