Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes

I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism, but that other voice never fled from me.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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PoetryMeAmbitionStartVoicePoet

If I have one wish for my birthday, it is that 35 is the end of desperation and the beginning of acceptance. Part of that is believing that if I'm meant to give birth, I will.

Jessi Klein

BirthdayBeginningAcceptanceEnd

The mistake that was made was, of course, leaving Saddam in charge of affairs over there.

John Dingell

MistakeLeavingOverChargeMade

Successful writers say you should never work from a desk with a view, and the view I have from this one is a huge distraction. There's a garden bursting with fresh vegetation, and just beyond the high wall at the end of it, I can see the sign of the local pub across the road. Distractions, eh? I'm so easily led.

Matt Roper

WorkRoadEndViewYouWall

I plan on being a friend, a good leader and a good governor over these next three years.

John Rowland

GoodFriendLeaderPlanThreeOver

When I was 10 years old, I threw a bottle with a note in it in the ocean in Massachusetts, and Harrison Salisbury found it and contacted me. We began a correspondence that lasted for years, and I eventually met him when I was 18.

Amor Towles

OceanMeOldHimYearsBottle

A lot of rappers say 'I'm talking about stuff that goes on, what I grew up in, that I know about.' And these journalists say, 'Yeah, but you're making 80 million dollars, that stuff's not about you.' Look how long he's been making 80 million. He grew up poor in an urban city and the things he's experienced and knows.

Stuart Scott

CityTalkingLongYouLookKnow

Strangely enough, I've become a Metallica fan.

Rodney Crowell

EnoughBecomeFanMetallica

U.S. intelligence has the legal right to monitor foreign communications as they go through to U.S. service providers. However, even though something is legal doesn't make it right. I'm not American; I don't really care about what data is being collected about American citizens. I'm worried about us, the foreigners.

Mikko Hypponen

ServiceIntelligenceLegalAmerican

There can be many reasons to travel, but wandering into the world for no particular reason is a sublime madness, which in all its whimsy and pointlessness may depict the story of life - and indeed could be a useful model to keep in mind, seeing as so much of life's ambition comes unstuck or leads to nothing much at all.

Michael Leunig

LifeTravelMindAmbitionWorld

I transcend earthly bounds. I never cease to amaze myself because I haven't yet found my limits. I am quite ready to accept the limits of what I can do, but every time I feel that way - boom! - God touches me and I do something that's even more stupendous than whatever I've done up to then.

Don King

GodTimeMyselfI AmMeLimits

I wanted to become an actor so I didn't have to put on a suit and sell insurance.

Dean Winters

InsuranceActorBecomeSuitSell

If you lend your consciousness to someone else, you're a robot.

Prince

SomeoneYouRobotConsciousnessYour

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