Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.Ta-Nehisi Coates
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We all know that television is better for women as they get into their 40s. You could be more three-dimensional, not just the wife or the mother.
Dana Delany -
Mel will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number.
Patrick McGoohan -
I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy.
Laura Mvula -
If you have an impulse, not if you're going to ruin someone elses' scene, if you have an impulse of a funny little add-on or taking something in a weird direction, try it.
Rachel Dratch -
I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
Karen Armstrong -
Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
Gabrielle Giffords
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Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.
Imelda Staunton -
All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.
Vincent D'Onofrio -
I don't believe in miracles.
Sam Simon -
Look, there ought to be politics in politics.
Karl Rove -
The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.
Patricia Schroeder -
Business today consists in persuading crowds.
T. S. Eliot
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Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.
P. J. O'Rourke -
To be among the world's greatest athletes and compete for Team U.S.A. while knowing that the entire world is watching is something that athletes dream about. To be able to experience that was truly special.
Carli Lloyd -
I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
Rachel Sklar -
It feels like a simple human right to be able to be yourself, and yet, what trans people have to go through in order to get to there, it can be so complicated.
Eddie Redmayne -
Being a celebrity is a business.
Caitlyn Jenner -
I'm not an actress; I'm not a professional testifier.
Faye Resnick
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I draw inspiration from my life, and, honestly, a lot of my religious beliefs have stemmed into my music.
Lindsey Stirling -
My wife and family, to say the least, are the center of my life; they are my grounding. I don't want to sound schmaltzy, but they are my inspiration and you name it.
Bill de Blasio -
I don't think there's much a person could say about me. My gangster's never been on trial.
Beanie Sigel -
Over the past few years special interests have had a larger and larger say over who gets what in America, and the voices of average citizens are being shut out.
Marty Meehan -
The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.
Ta-Nehisi Coates