Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes

I was born in West Baltimore, lived in a situation in which violence was everywhere.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Eating at home is fine, as I can easily work around the foods that don't agree with me and still eat heartily with the rest of my family. I don't force them to follow my diet.

Andrea McLean

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There's nothing in this country that is a worse accusation - in America, if you accuse somebody of racism, that person has to disprove that.

Andrew Breitbart

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I don't keep a diary or a journal. Sometimes I'll send emails to friends, and that's a way of recording what I was thinking at any given time. But I've never been a journal keeper.

Meghan Daum

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Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Ann Landers

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We have a duty to ensure that patients don't have to worry whether they'll be dropped from their coverage if they get sick. Small business owners shouldn't have to break the bank to provide coverage to their employees. And families should not be forced into bankruptcy because of a medical crisis.

Jeff Merkley

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I make it my business to be around people that don't look like me or think like me or act like me. I want to learn from them.

Andy Mineo

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When I was a kid, and for many years after, I was your classic afraid-to-dance-type person.

Jed S. Rakoff

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Sad to say, multi-tasking is beyond me. I read one book at a time all the way through. If I'm reviewing the book, I have to write the review before I start reading any other book. I especially hate it when the phone rings and interrupts my train of thought.

Michael Dirda

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You wiggle to the left, you wiggle to the right, you do the Ooby Dooby with all your might.

Roy Orbison

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It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different, and I loved it.

Dido Armstrong

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If you book the same models that look and act the same in every show - I get the continuity, and it is beautiful to see, but there's also no life to it. I'm personally not a fan of that.

Christian Siriano

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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Norman Schwarzkopf

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