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Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes

When you know that people know who you are, you are always working - and not the work you want to do. You are sort of performing, because you know they are looking - or at least glancing - at you.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: September 30, 1975

Topics

Work People Looking You Know Want

Wherever you are - be all there.

Jim Elliot

Motivational You Wherever

Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful, even if it was just vicariously.

Joan Allen

Opportunity Sad Angry Happy Me Just

Provocations are like a Molotov cocktail. They only work one time out of ten, but when it works, it can also be dangerous for the arm that is throwing it. It's the price that has to be paid.

Maurizio Cattelan

Work Time Dangerous Price Cocktail

Science has nothing in common with religion. Facts and miracles never did and never will agree.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Science Religion Facts Miracles Will

For me, electronic music is like cooking: it's a sensual organic activity where you can mix ingredients.

Jean-Michel Jarre

Music Cooking Me You Ingredients

Michael Fassbender is phenomenal in '12 Years a Slave.'

Stana Katic

Years Slave Phenomenal Michael

I'll sit on the floor and cry if I'm having a meltdown. I don't care.

Suki Waterhouse

Care Cry Floor Sit Having Meltdown

A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.

Tom Peters

Growth You Professional Will Leave

When I was going into inventing, it wasn't a dream the way someone goes into nursing or dancing. Because there's a path with that. It's very different when you say, 'I have an idea and it doesn't exist.' It's a very different path.

Joy Mangano

Path Someone You Dream Say Way

The end goal is to make a piece that everybody has ownership over and everybody's proud of because everybody contributed to it. I think there's a communist, socialist vibe to 'Portlandia' to make it work.

Jonathan Krisel

Work Proud Think End Ownership Goal

When they released Sidewalks of New York, there were some shots with the towers they were going to take out, and Ed told them no. I don't think they can deny the towers were a part of New York.

Dennis Farina

New York Think New Out Take Going

The grand jury's job is not to weigh the evidence from both sides; it is only to decide whether there is enough evidence on one side to bring a person to trial.

Donella Meadows

Job Enough Person Sides Jury Side