Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes

When I grew up in West Baltimore, anything associated - and I'm talking about my childhood - with white people 99 percent of the time was something malevolent, like it was an explanatory force for something bad.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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I have severe osteoporosis. Your bones start to collapse.

Joan Kirner

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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.

Jesse Jackson

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You have enough people against you... be for yourself.

Joel Osteen

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If the president is failing to disclose material facts with regard to legislation being presented to the Congress on a question as important as war and peace, I think it does impair the level of trust that the House and the Senate have for this administration.

John Dingell

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I think as a kid I always liked to listen to people. I loved hearing stories.

Anna Deavere Smith

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I'm interested to see what happens with Fox News and phone hacking. I really can't believe it just happens in Great Britain. Because really, who cares about just hacking phones over there?

Michael Moore

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Sitcoms are fun. The whole multi-cam genre is always a lot of fun. You throw a live audience in the mix, and it's even better.

Jason Priestley

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In fact, I think - our view of this is that while the agreement, the compromise did not achieve the kind of super-sized deficit reduction that we sought, it did end the uncertainty around the perception, the possibility that the United States might default on its obligations for its first time. That was a good thing.

Jay Carney

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Only Congress can treat the gaping wound that is our broken immigration system.

Jared Polis

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We were doing press for this movie that my friends and I made for $5,000 called 'Brothers Justice,' that I also wrote and directed. And during the press of that, people kept saying, 'What's next, what's next?' And my best friend Nate and I - Nate produced it - we kept saying, 'Oh, we're gonna do a car-chase movie next.'

Dax Shepard

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Unlike other peoples the United States found their origin in a deliberate act of corporate self-assertion, and ever since the Revolution every little American has been taught to associate himself personally with this creative act.

Christopher Dawson

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In general, the PC's always had a fairly decent tie to GDP.

Brian Krzanich

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