Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes

We are all losers in comparison to Malala Yousafzai. But we are not all geniuses. Like me.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been.

Jim Bishop

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You don't expect to be touched by comedy. But when it happens, it's beautiful.

Jermaine Fowler

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I come to Jerusalem. There, the sky is blue and memory becomes clear.

Menachem Begin

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Part of me is very shy.

Amanda Eliasch

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Don't get me wrong, there are sometimes if I go and see a really funny comedy, that I wished I had smoked a joint. I'll be honest with you. That's the truth.

Stephen Baldwin

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It's very difficult to explain to a normal working citizen the implications of what $18 trillion in debt means and what it means when the Federal Reserve buys the U.S. Treasury bonds to finance our loss every month.

Steve Wynn

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Donald Trump is a fraud. Listening to him talk about how he's going to put American first again, he's spent his entire career putting his own profits first.

Tom Perez

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Jesus gives his life for the congregation, not the other way around.

Rob Walton

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Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

Ronald Reagan

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And then Dick called and said, I'm going to do a special called Dick Van Dyke and the other woman, that would be you, because every time I try to check into a hotel with my wife, they look at me as though I'm cheating on Laura.

Mary Tyler Moore

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I don't think that I've ever really been interested in many other things aside from music and making art in general.

Mija

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You try to hide your emotions, so as not to show weaknesses to others. I believe it's the same for every sportsman.

Michael Schumacher

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