Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes

Germany has spent the decades since World War II in national penance for Nazi crimes. America spent the decades after the Civil War transforming Confederate crimes into virtues. It is illegal to fly the Nazi flag in Germany. The Confederate flag is enmeshed in the state flag of Mississippi.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Wedding fever is one of the scariest diseases I have ever seen.

Jessica Valenti

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When we approach games, we're always emotional-focused, so if a free-to-play business model works against the emotion, we won't use it. If it actually works well with the emotion, or if we can come up with a new way to do monetization that's different and that's unique for the game, I would go for that.

Jenova Chen

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For thirty-five years, David Halberstam, an unsilent member of the Silent Generation, has contemplated America and its place in the world, casting his eye on big subjects - Vietnam, global economics, race, mass media, and the 1950s.

John Gregory Dunne

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I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier if someone was African-American and lived next door and went to the same church. Because then I wouldn't have to translate.

Maya Angelou

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The toughest thing about making movies is being apart from your family. One of the things I try my best to do is call my wife every day to keep up to speed with what's going on in her life. And tell her what's going on with mine.

Jeff Bridges

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There are... certainly more innovations on 'Revolver'... but the truth of the matter is 'Sgt. Pepper' has something that was just completely different and unique at that moment.

Steven Van Zandt

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Suddenly, I realised: this was what I wanted to do. I didn't know how to do it; I just knew acting felt right.

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

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The reality is even if you are a hands-on Mayor or Governor or chief executive, at best, you must know about 10 or 20% of what's going on. Otherwise, you never get through the day... I was very hands on, and there's lots of stuff I didn't know, and lots of things that either went wrong or right that I would find out about afterwards.

Rudy Giuliani

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I went through a period when I did military roles and played basically someone who was unfit for military service.

Michael O'Keefe

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People have been afraid of me because of the parts I played. Nobody remembers that I was the dad in 'Free Willy.'

Michael Madsen

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I am not political as a person.

Diane Wakoski

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Rock has the ability to make you feel like you're the only person in the room.

Diamond Dallas Page

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