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.Ta-Nehisi Coates
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
Warren Weaver -
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.
Barton Gellman -
I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
Fede Alvarez -
So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
Uma Thurman -
I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
Maika Monroe -
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.
Zooey Deschanel
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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.
Pat Paulsen -
The day I leave Paris is the day I go down a level or quit football.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
Samuel Daniel -
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.
A. R. Rahman -
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.
Hans-Georg Gadamer -
Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.
Queen Rania of Jordan
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I sure am handsome. I can't lie. This is one handsome guy.
Landon Donovan -
There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.
Natalie Portman -
When we think about the past, we think, 'It must have been so boring.' It's actually not.
Caitriona Balfe -
When I am not working, I am home. I love spending time at my house.
Mahesh Babu -
My stories are not Christianized at all. I don't even have any Christians in my stories. What they are, are stories about ordinary people going through extraordinary circumstances in which I'm exploring truth. How light overcomes darkness in a way that's unmistakable to anyone who has any kind of faith.
Ted Dekker -
I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
Rand Paul
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All this takes many clumsy and inexact word-descriptions to describe, but if we read paintings like we read books, it would not be such a hidden language for painting can effortlessly produce such elegant solutions.
Peter Greenaway -
If God has made your cup sweet, drink it with grace; if He has made it bitter, drink it in communion with Him.
Oswald Chambers -
Books are such a great way to spend time with your children, open lines of communication with your children, and just build that strong foundation.
Victoria Osteen -
Criminals look at identity theft and say only 1 in 700 criminals gets convicted of it. And they look at check forgery and they know that for every 1,400 forgers arrested, only about 123 get convicted and about 26 go to jail. So the rewards are great, but the risks are very slim. So that's one of the reasons that make it very popular.
Frank Abagnale -
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.
Ta-Nehisi Coates