Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes

Donald Trump did not appear by magic.

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• Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.

  

  Daniel Burnham
  • Men
  • Magic
  • Blood

• Donald Trump has made it clear that he regards Hungary highly.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Trump
  • Made
  • Clear

• The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • America
  • Society
  • Free

• You just do the best you can with what you've got... and sometimes magic strikes.

  

  Sally Field
  • Best
  • Sometimes
  • Magic

• What works for me is knowing the character in an emotional sense. I wish I was more logical but it doesn't work for me like that. I need quite a lot of time; it's why I always worry when I'm doing more than one thing at a time. I hope that some sort of magic will kick in.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Time
  • Work
  • Why

• A fighter lives in his training camp, and I'm not always paying attention to what is happening on the outside. But I do know the Mexican people and the Mexican-American people in this country are very hard-working people. That's my only comment about Donald Trump.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • People
  • Country
  • American

• Mr. Trump, Americans can't afford, and don't want, to worry about the latest lawsuit filed against their president. And you're not immune from these suits once you enter the Oval Office. Anything you've done before taking office is fair game.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Done
  • Game
  • Worry

• If ever we deserved a candidate at this moment in our culture, that candidate is Donald Trump.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Culture
  • Moment
  • Trump

• If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Sometimes
  • Magic
  • Down

• Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Life
  • Painting
  • Magic

• I never wanted to be a public figure. I feel that I always have to dampen down people's expectations. They expect me to be an oracle, wave a magic wand, sprinkle some slow, sparkly dust on them, to make everything all right.

  

  Carl Honore
  • People
  • Magic
  • Expectations

• Nobody could like Donald Trump, surely, except his mother. No one really likes The Donald. But how can you not have respect for a guy who's been down on the floor and just keeps coming back? Nothing will keep Donald Trump down until they drive a wooden stake in his heart and a silver bullet in his brain.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Heart
  • Mother
  • Guy

• The problem with Donald Trump is that he went and designed a brand that is entirely amoral.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Problem
  • Trump
  • Donald Trump

• I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Birds
  • Realism
  • Unrealistic

• If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it's because I put the character first.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Character
  • Magic
  • First

• The Scottish Highlands are incredible. There seems to be magic and poetry everywhere.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Poetry
  • Magic
  • Seems

• Research indicates that a pause tends to be a signal that a cluster of deceptive cues is on its way. This is a key reason why voters routinely associate Trump with authenticity: He rarely pauses.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Why
  • Trump
  • Research

• I have been writing fairy tales for as long as I can remember. Not much has changed in terms of my natural attraction to the narrative techniques of fairy tales. My appreciation of them in the traditional stories has deepened, especially of flat and unadorned language, intuitive logic, abstraction, and everyday magic.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Remember

• The truly great books are always novels: 'Anna Karenina,' 'The Brothers Karamazov,' 'The Magic Mountain.' Just as with 'Shahnameh,' I browse these books from time to time to remember how a great book works on us or to teach my students at Columbia University.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Time
  • Great
  • Book

• I think stupid people are surprised that I'm Australian. It's a small-minded; we live in a global community, but I suppose some people still are small-minded.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Live
  • Small

• Brain surgery is a fairly aggressive process. There's a lot to get through. There's the beautiful, delicate shaving first, which is really lovely. There's a wonderful ceremony of putting all the covers on, so only the little bit you're operating on is revealed. But once they make the incision and tear the skin back, the drill comes out.

  

  James Nesbitt
  • Beautiful
  • Brain

• We have to learn how to contact one another over an enormous land space, across five-and-a-half time zones, in what as once a wilderness of scattered settlements, in what is now a sprawl of suburban edge cities and satellite towns. Technology forges connections and disconnections here.

  

  B. W. Powe
  • Time
  • Space
  • Technology

• Donald Trump did not appear by magic.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Magic
  • Trump
  • Appear