Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes

Obama's presence opened a new field for writers, and what began as curiosity about the man himself eventually expanded into curiosity about the community he had so consciously made his home and all the old, fitfully slumbering questions he'd awakened about American identity.

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Mentorship is an incredibly huge responsibility. And you need to choose your mentors carefully, just like mentors choose their apprentices carefully. There has to be trust there, on a very deep level.

Jimmy Chin

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There's nothing like taking Proust to the beach and daydreaming along to it.

Jerry Hall

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I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination.

Andrew Motion

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The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better.

John Mason Brown

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No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.

Ann Landers

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The right solemnly proclaimed at the birth of the States, and which has been affirmed and reaffirmed in the bills of rights of the States subsequently admitted into the Union of 1789, undeniably recognizes in the people the power to resume the authority delegated for the purposes of Government.

Jefferson Davis

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I really like visiting military bases.

Stacy Keibler

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I've learned this is a very long marriage doing a television show. I like the people that I work with to be people I enjoy, so you want to cast people who are as excited and enthusiastic as you are.

Shonda Rhimes

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I come from a family where soccer has always been very present. My uncles, my father and my brother were all players.

Ronaldinho

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The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

Rudyard Kipling

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What the world does not need is a Haggadah that pats itself on the back. It needs a Haggadah that gets out of the way, that starts a conversation and gets out of the way.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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I don't like my physique at all.

Donatella Versace

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