Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes

The African-American tradition, in the main, is very, very church-based, very, very Christian. It accepts, you know, certain narratives about the world. I didn't really have that present in my house.

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Quitting doesn't enter my mind.

Jimmy Buffett

MindQuittingEnter

There's something so familial and intimate between a boxer and his trainer.

Jimmy Smits

TrainerSomethingBetweenHisBoxer

I almost should have a shirt made: 'Jill Soloway has changed my life...' Not only changed my life with the opportunity to play Maura, but the opportunity and the responsibility of playing Maura.

Jeffrey Tambor

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Political rivals attacked me. I was savagely beaten. I was kicked in the face and I lost my eye as a result.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

Socrates

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Bitcoin is coming from a bunch of young computer nerds who saw this thing and thought it was neat. A lot of the early bitcoiners are 19-year-old kids, still living at home with their parents, and they don't have any business experience.

Roger Ver

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My dad used to sit me on his knee and read from the Bible to us. We were a praying family. Ours was a family of love and a family of prayer.

Roma Downey

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I was very lucky all three newspapers approached me and asked me to draw their cartoons for them.

Jonathan Shapiro

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As far as carrying the American banner, you just do what's right for the kids.

Dennis Farina

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I am a human being. I started out with virtually nothing. I worked my way up like so many businesspeople have and made ourselves great in this country. And that is what we have to make sure we preserve for our grandchildren and future generations all the way through.

Douglas R. Oberhelman

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I think some people record songs and make records a certain way to cater to radio. If you're born to make commercial music that's cool. But if you're born to not make commercial records, maybe you're meant to cater to another market.

Bryan White

MusicPeopleCoolThinkYouBorn

Weight loss surgery isn't going to make you lose weight; it's a tool to help you lose weight. Half of it is the surgery, and half of it is you eating what you're supposed to eat and exercising.

Ashley Nell Tipton

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