Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes

To Trump, whiteness is neither notional nor symbolic but the very core of his power. In this, Trump is not singular. But whereas his forebears carried whiteness like an ancestral talisman, Trump cracked the glowing amulet open, releasing its eldritch energies.

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  Zooey Deschanel
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• Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.

  

  Ulrich Beck
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• Oil has become the principal wealth in the hands of the great Yankee transnationals; through this energy source, they had an instrument that considerably expanded their political power in the world.

  

  Fidel Castro
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• Maybe I should pretend like I'm not insecure, but I really am. This movie is going to come out and... will people like it? Will they like Rey?

  

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• Doing the right thing has power.

  

  Laura Linney
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• Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.

  

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

  

  Viktor Orban
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• But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals.

  

  Warren Zevon
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• I believe the old boys' network is a powerful one. No one gives up power and privilege willingly, do they?

  

  Quentin Bryce
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• Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.

  

  Jack Levine
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• I'm very close with my higher power. I have a very strong connection with it.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
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• I have a lot of vinyl, but I only buy old records on vinyl. Like secondhand. It's too expensive otherwise.

  

  Caitlin Rose
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• An act of unilateral nuclear disarmament by a European power would have a much more lasting impact than all the sanctions under consideration. Sanctions, as we know from the example of Iraq, always affect the least powerful citizens the most.

  

  Tariq Ali
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• I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.

  

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• The whole experience on 'Grown Ups 2' was like going to adult summer camp.

  

  Halston Sage
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• If you feel like snacking, stock up on almonds, walnuts and cranberries.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
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• You have to see if the batsman is coming out, if he is staying back, what his grip is like, to gauge his intentions. A common trend I have observed is, a lot of batsmen change their grips when they are looking to hit: normally they either go high or slide their hand to the bottom of the handle to get maximum power.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
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• I had something I was trying to say and sometimes the message is an easy transmission and sometimes it's a difficult one but I love the power of saying it so I'm gonna do it whether it's hard or easy.

  

  Faith Ringgold
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• I tried to write 'Trainspotting' in standard English, but people weren't talking like that.

  

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• Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn't help us know what to say.

  

  Jonathan Sacks
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• Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health, power, and pleasure.

  

  John Ruskin
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• When I first came out, country wouldn't touch me because I was way too rock, and rock wouldn't touch me because I was definitely country.

  

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• To Trump, whiteness is neither notional nor symbolic but the very core of his power. In this, Trump is not singular. But whereas his forebears carried whiteness like an ancestral talisman, Trump cracked the glowing amulet open, releasing its eldritch energies.

  

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