Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.Ta-Nehisi Coates
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I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
Parker Stevenson -
What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
V. S. Naipaul -
I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.
Cameron Diaz -
I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.
Daniel Boulud -
The Sparks have always been committed to success and making the right moves to build upon their rich tradition in the WNBA.
Candace Parker -
I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
Rainn Wilson
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
Olga Kurylenko -
Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
Sallust -
Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.
Xenophon -
I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
Ian Mckellen -
It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.
Patricia Heaton -
There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
Orlando Bloom
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As a competitor, I want to continue to keep turning the chapters and keep challenging myself.
Abby Wambach -
My retiring days are behind me – they're going to have to throw me out now.
Garth Brooks -
Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.
T. Harv Eker -
And I think the blessing of heaven is on Bush. It's just the way it is.
Pat Robertson -
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
Felix Frankfurter -
I had a lot of survival jobs. One was for the Witty Ditty singing-telegram company. I was in the red-and-white stripes with the straw boater hat and kazoo. Balloons. Even when you're sleeping on a friend's couch, you have to pay some kind of rent.
Aaron Sorkin
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If you're a Republican woman, you're mostly on your own when it comes to support from traditional women's groups.
Dana Perino -
The only fountain in the wilderness of life, where man drinks of water totally unmixed with bitterness, is that which gushes for him in the calm and shady recess of domestic life.
William Penn -
M dad was a boxer, so he had this fierce, physical presence.
Anthony Browne -
Make it absolutely clear to yourself what you want from other people. That is really half the secret for drawing your desire to you in the shortest possible time and with the least amount of effort.
Vernon Howard -
If most people were to take a moment to picture in their minds the average, not-for-profit, save-the-world girl, they... well, they probably wouldn't, because who wants to think about hemp, hairy legs, and Birkenstocks? But I'd rather eat a pair of Birkenstocks than put them on my feet, and I love, love, love my Christian Louboutins.
Nancy Lublin -
People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
Ta-Nehisi Coates