Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
I'm the descendant of enslaved black people in this country. You could've been born in 1820 if you were black and looked back to your ancestors and saw nothing but slaves all the way back to 1619. Look forward another 50 or 60 years and saw nothing but slaves.Ta-Nehisi Coates
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I was born and brought up in Chennai, as the entire Telugu film industry was based there.
Mahesh Babu -
I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.
Ian Frazier -
So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
Uma Thurman -
I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
Taylor Schilling -
Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
Larry Flynt -
We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens.
Ted Cruz
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The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
A. J. P. Taylor -
No Hindu community, however low, will touch cow's flesh. On the other hand, there is no community which is really an Untouchable community which has not something to do with the dead cow. Some eat her flesh, some remove the skin, some manufacture articles out of her skin and bones.
Babasaheb -
To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.
Orison Swett Marden -
Winston Cup and the Busch Series are two totally different leagues. You get put in different situations.
Adam Petty -
English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
Yaya Toure -
Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
Lance Morrow
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
Mal Peet -
For my life, I need to make my own choices.
Kangana Ranaut -
I'd say Juventus has a story as legendary as the Yankees.
Lapo Elkann -
No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
Samuel Johnson -
I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and that this gives Wal-Mart an unfair advantage. I don't believe it... What we hear is concern that in some circumstances, Wal-Mart may actually be paying more than our competitors.
S. Robson Walton -
When I was 13, I thought I was pretty hot stuff because I knew BASIC programming, self-taught on the family's Commodore 64. One of my crowning accomplishments was writing a silly little program that showed a crudely-drawn Space Shuttle lifting off in a cloud of pixelated smoke.
Walter O'Brien
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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
Immanuel Kant -
I am a dangerous man when turned loose with a typewriter.
Charles Bukowski -
Musically, I actually grew up listening to country music as a kid, like George Strait, Alan Jackson... all those guys. So it was kind of weird crossing over from that to pop and R&B, but you know, I love Michael Jackson, Ne-Yo, Usher, R. Kelly, Drake, Boyz II Men.
Austin Mahone -
Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of the States and of the people are again brought together to deliberate for the public good.
James K. Polk -
I'm the descendant of enslaved black people in this country. You could've been born in 1820 if you were black and looked back to your ancestors and saw nothing but slaves all the way back to 1619. Look forward another 50 or 60 years and saw nothing but slaves.
Ta-Nehisi Coates