Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the certain sins of the future.Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Best player I ever played against? I mean, I played against many, many good players, so I don't know who to keep. I would say Ronaldo the Fenomeno.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America's involvement in world affairs a clear focus. The objectives of foreign policy were relatively easy to define, and they could be imbued with high moral content.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
It's remarkable what a new kidney does to your life. I have no complaints... I'm pretty amazed. I have been working on my stamina.
Natalie Cole -
Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
Zig Ziglar -
I tell young actors to do anything that will sustain them.
Vic Tayback -
I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
B. B. King
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I can't even be around children. It's a problem. My ovaries start screaming.
Odette Annable -
Bipartisanship is really tough to achieve when everyone on both sides is left with a bad, bad taste in their mouths.
Brown Campbell -
Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.
Eduardo Chillida -
No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual.
Rand Paul -
Gone are the days when the upper classes were terrified of the angry mob wanting to smash their skulls and confiscate their properties. Now their biggest enemy is the army of lazy bums, whose lifestyle of indolence and hedonism, financed by crippling taxes on the rich, is sucking the lifeblood out of the economy.
Ha-Joon Chang -
The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working.
Raghuram Rajan
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'Shkoff' is to eat. 'Shkiaff' is to slap. Like, 'Gettouttahere I'm gonna give you a couple of shkiaffs,' or, 'Forget presentation, just shkiaff the food onto the plate.'
Nadia Giosia -
I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.
Manuel Puig -
I'm a pretty plain-spoken guy.
Larry Hogan -
It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.
Salman Rushdie -
Ford was warm and friendly. He wouldn't embarrass a Cabinet member.
Earl Butz -
Life isn't fair, and it isn't government's job to make life fair. But if you're not willing to give up on yourself, then we shouldn't give up on you, either.
Tammy Duckworth
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I guess telling stories is an art. I never looked at it that way. I just started talking, and everyone started laughing. So I kept talking, and they kept laughing.
Art Donovan -
The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.
Ralph Adams Cram -
All the societal pressures that make girls feel as if they're too smart, especially in the sciences - 'No one will date them. They won't be popular.' - don't apply to boys. The boys are being encouraged.
Eileen Pollack -
Some people do really find fault like there's a reward for it.
Zig Ziglar -
Let us resolve by God's grace, that however poor and feeble our prayers may seem to be, we will pray on.
J. C. Ryle -
An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the certain sins of the future.
Ta-Nehisi Coates