Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
Throughout his eight years in office, Barack Obama endured a campaign of illegitimacy waged either by pluralities or majorities of the Republican party. Donald Trump rooted his candidacy in that campaign. It's fairly obvious.
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.
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I loved being on the set of 'Field of Dreams' because I hung out with the baseball players all day, played cards, flirted with Ray Liotta, and had a ball.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.
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I've had about 140 albums released, and I've done everything I wanted to do.
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Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?
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I hope I have a long career, but I really don't think about the future like that. I live, like, for right now, honestly. I take it however it comes.
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Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
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He was about building up the Trump name and then selling it and leasing it in as many different ways as possible.
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Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations and institutions of men, to that extent denies the faith of the Master.
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I had my first concert in front of 80,000 people at the International Soca Monarch Finals.
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Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
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You work with some people, you see a spark in them and you can't help praising them. But everyone has their own destiny. No one can make anyone. Who reaches where and when, is all written.
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Hold the door for a lady. Wait until a lady is out of the elevator.
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I had no style when I was 17! I look at teenagers now and say, 'I wish I'd looked like them when I was that age.' I had no style whatsoever, but style also wasn't as prominent as it is today. I was just very laid back, usually wearing jeans and tank tops and flip flops.
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Engagement means that in the future there will be a lot more ways for our audience to interact with Univision content.
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I tried the broadcasting thing, the coaching thing, but I'll never replace the competitive feeling of being out on the field when we were players.
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Difficult times often bring out the best in people.
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I could give you a long list of things I like about Britain, but essentially what it comes down to is that I feel about Britain the same way I feel about my wife. I'm crazy about my wife - we just kind of suit each other. I wouldn't say that she's the most fantastic human being that's ever lived, but she is for me.
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This is the moment when I should also admit that when the Internet first arrived I kept telling people it was a fad.
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Too many politicians are shifting the critical themes of our national conversations from a 'big ideas' American Brand Platform to narrowly focused, polarizing sound bites that put party philosophy before what used to be heralded as the common good. These ideas, more often than not, divide us rather than serve to bind us.
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That is what fame is, isn't it? To get the world to fall in love with you.
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Throughout his eight years in office, Barack Obama endured a campaign of illegitimacy waged either by pluralities or majorities of the Republican party. Donald Trump rooted his candidacy in that campaign. It's fairly obvious.
