Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes

Fighting, I guess, was never the real reason I read comic books as a kid. The fighting was an important part, an integral part of it; I don't know I would've read it without it.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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During my senior year, when I was attending the University of Michigan and getting a drama degree, the Purple Rose Theatre was in its second season. The year before was the company's inaugural season. I, of course, wanted to work there. It was started by a really prominent local actor, Jeff Daniels.

Matt Letscher

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Love is the bond of perfection.

John Winthrop

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Ladies are honest. They're my motivation. They know what's funny, and the dudes just follow.

Tracy Morgan

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If I can join hands with FIFA and other continental bodies to promote football globally, then I can do more than that to raise African football to new heights.

Roger Milla

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It's almost a rite of passage for the middle-aged, it seems, to invent generational stereotypes for dumping on the young.

Robin Marantz Henig

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Just because the boogeyman of the Soviet Union doesn't exist anymore, it doesn't mean the world is living angelically.

Rod Lurie

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If you're playing basketball with someone who's better than you, you have to get better or else it's no fun.

Jason Behr

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I was from a tiny little island, which I always say is one corn field away from a horror film: it was, like, isolated, and everybody knew everybody, and you go to school with the grandkids of the grandparents that your grandparents went to school with.

Dove Cameron

SchoolYouGoSayIslandHorror

When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn't feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting.

Christopher Hitchens

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I don't think anything's underground anymore. And I think that's a good thing. Everything is up for grabs.

Colin Greenwood

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When I was in high school in America, I didn't see anyone who looked like me - hardly ever. I just thought that was normal because you don't know any better. So I used to idolize so many other people, like Sarah Michelle Gellar on 'Buffy.'

Priyanka Chopra

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Germany is probably the richest country in Western Europe. Yet they wouldn't take any television with Duke and Ella, their reaction being that people weren't interested in it.

Norman Granz

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