Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes

I just want to be really clear about this: Anyone who has read Colin Powell's biography - there's an entire section where he talks about experiencing segregation. Colin Powell did not appear when he became head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. That's not how it happened.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Civility is not simply about manners.

Jim Leach

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I was heavily influenced by big voices when I was younger. People like Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, and Patti Labelle really spoke to me. When I got older, I was into Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, and Lauryn Hill, but it wasn't until I started working with a voice coach that I really dove into jazz music.

Andra Day

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Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.

Robert Jarvik

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I see everybody arguing about what the value of music should be instead of what I think the bigger conversation is, which is that music has value, it's subjective and we're moving to a new era where the audience is taking more responsibility for supporting artists at whatever level.

Amanda Palmer

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I felt blessed by the existence of Horace Porter's 'Campaigning With Grant.'

Ron Chernow

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People expected me to be creative and true to myself. In that way, I follow my father's footsteps.

Rohan Marley

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Some people probably think me telling Godard's story is blasphemy. My friends were worried. But he's not my hero or my god. Godard is like the leader of a sect, and I'm an agnostic.

Michel Hazanavicius

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I can play the piano. I started off with lessons, and then, as we always had a piano in the house, I would play around and became quite good.

Louise Nurding

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My real hair color is kind of a dark blonde. Now I just have mood hair.

Julia Roberts

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Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.

Joseph Conrad

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I'm not fake in any way.

Courteney Cox

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When I first got into wrestling as a kid, I would read all of the wrestling magazines I could get my hands on. There was a satisfaction discovering that there was a whole wrestling world that existed that you didn't see on TV on Saturday morning. There was this idea that there was this stuff going on there that they didn't want us to see.

Box Brown

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