Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes

I had to learn to not be so hard. And I had a wife and, at that time, a partner when Samori was born, and for most of Samori's life, a partner, who, for whatever reason, did not have to learn that and was very tender and very, very soft with him.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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I came into the industry at a time when there weren't a lot of choices to what you could do.

Joe Morton

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Even nice things don't make you happy when you're tired.

Jo Brand

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I don't really write for adults or kids - I don't write for kids, I write about them. I think you need to do that; otherwise, you end up preaching down. You need to listen not so much to the audience but to the story itself.

Jerry Spinelli

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The one thing I've learned is that stuttering in public is never as bad as I fear it will be.

John Stossel

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Douglas Horton

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Obviously, death is ahead of me. I don't look forward to dying one little bit. But, you know, I simply don't worry about it because it's going to happen to me as it does to anybody.

Donald Hall

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A Texas upbringing - and living now in Brooklyn, too - have surely helped my appreciation for open spaces and skies, but beyond that, it's not easy to find words for what it feels like to be up in the Rockies or out on the Great Basin - such silences and spaces! - or to be heading up into the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

Brian Floca

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I think you can find yourself on one of these shows for a long period of time and think that all you'll ever be able to do is that character. Certainly people think of you that way.

William Petersen

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My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters, but it wasn't a good childhood.

Paula Danziger

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No man is an island. If you want to blame anybody for poisoning the world with that socialistic idea, blame John Donne.

Timothy Noah

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The way I drive, the way I handle a car, is an expression of my inner feelings.

Lewis Hamilton

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Every normal woman that is a mother will do everything for your baby to make sure he is happy. Every mother understands that the baby is only happy being with his or her mother.

Kristine Opolais

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