Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
In the mid-90s The older gods were falling off. EPMD were breaking. Chuck and Flav had taken us as far as they could, and already the new voices were being hijacked by the death cults. Brothers who last week were shouting out Malcolm were flipped into studio gangsters, killing every nigger in sight.
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As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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All four majors are definitely a priority.
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
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It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
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I love the Bronte sisters, but I feel a closer kinship to the Ephron sisters, Nora and Delia, if only because their work makes me laugh more than the Brontes. I also love the Mitford sisters with their secret language and their endless letters back and forth.
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Police can only act on intelligence.
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When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.
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My golf swing is probably the most horrendous you've ever seen. I look like I'm trying to attack the ball.
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Even on TV appearances or big shows, I don't know if I've ever been as nervous as I was my first time doing stand-up. I just remember getting offstage and sitting down, and my right knee was just shaking from the adrenaline.
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To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.
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I've lived in the Hamptons since 1978, when I first bought my store Barefoot Contessa.
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To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
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I definitely have a real self-destructive streak.
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We worked solidly for a long time together. George Marriott Edgar and myself.
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We reach ecstasy by a contestation of knowledge. Were I to stop at ecstasy and grasp it, in the end I would define it.
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Sell to their needs-not from yours.
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Partly as a consequence of male authority prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
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There's this belief that some things can be taken seriously in an intellectual way, while some things are only entertainment or only a commodity. Or there's some kind of critical consensus that some things are "good," and some things are garbage, throwaway culture. And I think the difference between them, in a lot of ways, is actually much less than people think. Especially when you get down to how they affect the audience.
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In the mid-90s The older gods were falling off. EPMD were breaking. Chuck and Flav had taken us as far as they could, and already the new voices were being hijacked by the death cults. Brothers who last week were shouting out Malcolm were flipped into studio gangsters, killing every nigger in sight.
