Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
Perhaps there has been, at some point in history, some great power whose elevation was exempt from the violent exploitation of other human bodies. If there has been, I have yet to discover it. But this banality of violence can never excuse America, because ... America believes itself exceptional, the greatest and noblest nation ever to exist.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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If a division becomes insolvent, the credit markets' reaction to that is immediate - regardless of what period of time you think you have to remedy.
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Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
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Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.
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We've got to step up our conservation efforts before it's too late. We're not protecting our lands and natural resources. Take the Grand Canyon for example; I'm sure that at one time it was a beautiful piece of land, and just look at the way we've let it go.
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The day I leave Paris is the day I go down a level or quit football.
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By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.
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Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.
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No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
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I sure am handsome. I can't lie. This is one handsome guy.
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There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.
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When we think about the past, we think, 'It must have been so boring.' It's actually not.
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When I am not working, I am home. I love spending time at my house.
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If you can market smut and toilet paper, you can market movies.
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You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.
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I think fiction rescues history from its confusions.
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Perhaps there has been, at some point in history, some great power whose elevation was exempt from the violent exploitation of other human bodies. If there has been, I have yet to discover it. But this banality of violence can never excuse America, because ... America believes itself exceptional, the greatest and noblest nation ever to exist.
