Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
The African-American tradition, in the main, is very, very church-based, very, very Christian. It accepts, you know, certain narratives about the world. I didn't really have that present in my house.Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
Edmund Waller -
The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
Foster Friess -
Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.
Val Kilmer -
I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
Taylor Swift -
I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.
Patrick Dempsey -
I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.
Calvin Trillin
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The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.
Frances Farmer -
I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!
Karen O -
The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
Ed Speleers -
I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
A. Philip Randolph -
I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
Dan Castellaneta
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In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
W. Somerset Maugham -
I love doing improv. I love comedy. I have always felt this way, even when I was really young.
Dakota Johnson -
There are lots of things I am not good at. I'm not that good a singer. And I'm a good dad but a lousy husband because I work far too much and am not at home as much as I would like.
Magnus Scheving -
Somebody can become a celebrity for being stupid. That is what it's turned into.
Kate Hudson -
Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is the catholic church.
Ignatius of Antioch -
Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.
Nadine Gordimer
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You look at how Barack Obama has had to conduct himself as president. It reminds me of Jackie Robinson, how he had to be very careful to reassure people that this was all right.
Ato Essandoh -
Reason flies When following the senses, on clipped wings.
Dante Alighieri -
Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.
Sallust -
But painting can be too lonely... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work.
Marie Windsor -
All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.
Charles J. Shields -
The African-American tradition, in the main, is very, very church-based, very, very Christian. It accepts, you know, certain narratives about the world. I didn't really have that present in my house.
Ta-Nehisi Coates