Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes

It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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I just like the people and the culture of Southeast Asia.

Jim Webb

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I have no interest in making a 'Vietnam' film, no interest in making a direct political statement.

Michael Cimino

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I have a stake in a company called Super Fight League, which is an MMA company in India, and we have a lot of shows in Dubai, too.

Amir Khan

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We always had our own vegetables growing up and now I'm doing it with my kids at our house in the country.

Stella McCartney

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Travel early and travel often. Live abroad, if you can. Understand cultures other than your own. As your understanding of other cultures increases, your understanding of yourself and your own culture will increase exponentially.

Tom Freston

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What could be better than walking down any street in any city and knowing you're the heavyweight champion of the world?

Rocky Marciano

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I came into this business to create characters that moved people and told stories.

Michael T. Weiss

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Behind every corrupt politician are 10-20 corrupt businessmen.

Mo Ibrahim

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When I'm dealing with the 18th century, as I do in 'The Firebird,' the difficulty isn't only finding what a woman did, it's finding her at all. Most of the sources I'm dealing with - letters and memoirs and written reports of the day - have been written by men.

Susanna Kearsley

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'Ida' is about humanity, about guilt and forgiveness. It's not a film that deals with an issue as such. It's more universal.

Pawel Pawlikowski

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I think that, generally, you need to live with your sport 24 hours a day.

Sergei Bubka

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All too often when liberals cite statistics, they forget the statisticians' warning that correlation is not causation.

Thomas Sowell

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