Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
Viggo Mortensen -
I think of myself as a journeyman actor. I've got some talent and I work hard, but people like Brando or Pacino - those people are touched by God.
Sam Rockwell -
I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
Aaron Neville -
Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
Florence King -
Our children and grandchildren are not going to have the same standard of living unless we educate that workforce.
Wayne Rogers -
Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours.
M. J. Rose
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
Lajos Kossuth -
I believe in civil liberties for homosexuals. I guess I'd have to say I'd draw the line at letting them teach in the schools.
Jack Kemp -
Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same.
Bea Arthur -
When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work.
Ian Mcewan -
I think life would be so much funnier if every day you saw someone walking down the street getting hit in the head by a monkey, don't you?
Harland Williams -
Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation.
E. Stanley Jones
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Families are families. We've all got them, more or less, and we all know what it's like to be bullied by another generation.
Tamsin Greig -
Carrie-Anne Moss is awesome. I am just going to put that out there.
Yvonne Strahovski -
Today, currently, business owners can go out and find out if the person they are hiring is eligible to work here or if they are not. We need to think about how we are impacting workers.
Gary Miller Bad Brains -
I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
Wayne McGregor -
Tennis is definitely a star for women in sports.
Venus Williams -
I just think political correctness is crap.
Gary Oldman
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And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else.
Mackenzie Astin -
The sum total of what I learned about African American culture in school was Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and the Underground Railroad. This was more than my mom knew; she didn't even see a black person in real life until she was 18 years old.
Ashley Graham -
I'm slowly feeling more Chinese and feel I should be more proud of being Chinese and appreciate where I've come from.
Patrick Chan -
I'm not a gun nut, but go out on my porch. Look around - what's there? Zero, nothing. If I had a problem out here, well, the police would arrive just in time to draw the chalk outline on my floor.
Art Bell -
I was 24 when Samori was born. His mom was 23.
Ta-Nehisi Coates