Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes

I love living around black people. Home is home. We suffer under racism and the physical deprivations that come with that, but beneath that, we form cultures and traditions that are beautiful.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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My children were attacked by the Minnesota media when I was governor.

Jesse Ventura

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I want people to know me through the movies I do. I want to be judged on that. If you start becoming famous for your personal life, that's when your career goes away.

Megan Fox

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I am politically incorrect, that's true. Political correctness to me is just intellectual terrorism. I find that really scary, and I won't be intimidated into changing my mind. Everyone isn't going to love you all the time.

Mel Gibson

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The minute you start assuming that the audience is very happy to see the same show again, you're dead.

Simon Cowell

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I learnt about plants from my father, who was a herbalist and an amateur microscopist.

Rupert Sheldrake

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You have to give people a reason to believe that, under your leadership, America will be better. Rick Santorum has done that.

Mike DeWine

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I developed this fantasy world. I found that that was much more fun and more interesting and exciting than real life was to me. Then, once I got the guitar going when I was a teenager, I set sail for the direction I've been in my whole life.

Don McLean

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I actually have a pig collection in my cabin: all types of old wood hand-carved pigs that my mom started for me as a housewarming gift.

Johnny Iuzzini

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The whole celebrity culture is super weird, but I'm part of it for some reason, and you kind of have to be as an actor to be successful.

Asa Butterfield

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As human beings we're so cynical, so uncompassionate.

Alicia Silverstone

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I had been very impressed with the voiceover of 'Apocalypse Now,' with Martin Sheen's voice. That was a great voiceover; it really internalized the Martin Sheen character, who was essentially fairly low key and didn't say a lot during the whole movie. But he thought a lot, so I always thought that was really great.

Ridley Scott

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A Trump presidency feels as if we've crawled between the covers of a really crummy book.

Lionel Shriver

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