Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes

For nearly a century and a half, this country deluded itself into thinking that its greatest calamity, the Civil War, had nothing to do with one of its greatest sins, enslavement. It deluded itself in this manner despite available evidence to the contrary.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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WarThinkingCountryNothingHalf

Live every day like it's you're last because one day you'll be right.

Jerry Reinsdorf

LiveDayYouEvery DayOne DayLast

Maybe it's my libertarian philosophy: but being in government is hard.

John Bolton

GovernmentPhilosophyHardBeing

I never wanted to be a performer. I suppose I was precocious, really.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

NeverWantedReallyPerformer

Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.

Robert Orben

HappinessSmallDeskBigVery

Plainly, when perfusate from an organ or blood from an animal is used for superfusion, substances can reach the assay tissues within a few seconds of generation or release.

John Vane

AnimalGenerationReachBloodWithin

No matter what I'm doing for myself or someone else, I'm constantly writing and working on other people's albums.

Missy Elliott

MyselfPeopleWritingSomeoneDoing

I loved all the world's mythologies.

Lloyd Alexander

WorldLoved

Look, I'm not trying to be critical when I'm on the air.

Johnny Miller

TryingLookAirCritical

People understand that Trump is a born leader.

Corey Lewandowski

LeaderPeopleBornUnderstandTrump

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

Winston Churchill

ForwardYouLookSeeBackward

I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscious of the things they do well, of the things they need to look at again, of the wells of material they have not even begun to dip their buckets into.

Tobias Wolff

WorkBestPeopleHelpLookPossible

In Hollywood, they think drawn animation doesn't work anymore, computers are the way. They forget that the reason computers are the way is that Pixar makes good movies. So everybody tries to copy Pixar. They're relying too much on the technology and not enough on the artists.

Tim Burton

WorkGoodTechnologyComputersThink

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