Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes

The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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No one would have picked me out in high school and said, 'This guy is going to be in show business.' I don't have any of the talents you would normally associate with show business.

Jerry Springer

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I've found that entrepreneurship only gets harder every year, and as your team gets bigger, the stakes get higher.

Jennifer Hyman

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Children born with Down Syndrome are not vegetables, nor are their lives demonstrably not worth living.

Tucker Carlson

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India is and will remain an important strategic growth market for the Volkswagen Group. We are convinced that VW will take on a key role in the Indian automobile market in the long-term.

Martin Winterkorn

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Honest doesn't necessarily mean unfiltered.

Josh Gondelman

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No matter how dark things may get in a story, I feel it's the responsibility of the storyteller to leave the audience with at least a shred of hope.

Josh Radnor

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With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.

Dee Hock

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And when you really think about the 9-11 event, the horrific attack on our land here in America and the death of three thousand of out loved ones, it was a defining moment.

Donald Evans

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I always liked the guys who lasted a long time in the match and had endurance. People like Ric Flair going an hour at the 1992 Rumble, or Shawn Michaels and the British Bulldog being one and two in 1995 and both lasting until the end.

Dean Ambrose

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I loved reading when I was young. I was just completely taken by stories. And I remember taking that into English literature at school and taking that into Shakespeare and finding that opened up a whole world of self-expression to me that I didn't have access to previously.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

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All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.

Brendan Behan

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It's kind of hard coming from 'Saturday Night Live,' which is a sketch-driven show, to a movie.

Bob Newhart

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