Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes

Many, many people of the Revolutionary generation, the generation that fought in the Revolutionary War, understood that slavery was somehow in contradiction to what America was saying it was. And many of those folks also, at the very least, gave land to African Americans when they were liberated.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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There is nothing so humbling as being a parent to young children!

Joe Kennedy III

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When you do life a certain way, it's bound to give you a higher level of probability to succeed, and that's what we preach.

Andrew Cherng

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There are certain things that I might not watch, and, in fact, some things that I've done I don't watch because it's not my cup of tea, I guess.

Melanie Scrofano

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I've always thought if we don't want to enforce laws on the books, we should remove them from the books. But when you have laws, you breed contempt if you don't enforce them.

Michael Bloomberg

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I absolutely love Canada, and I wouldn't live anywhere else. It's half American and half European, and I really enjoy that. And the people are just fantastic - nicer than any people in the world.

Sondra Radvanovsky

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Personally, I just got one of these Vonage IP phones. It's actually pretty cool. It comes with one of these Cisco ATA routers where you just plug an analog handset in.

Rob Glaser

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For a culture that has such a problem with death, we seem to deal with it in a quite bizarre way. We see people shot, killed and blown up, and we find it funny and sexy and all those things. But, the reality of it is that every day people die, and people are really sad and they grieve and they go through a really difficult process with it.

Michael Sheen

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A good memory is surely a compost heap that converts experience to wisdom, creativity, or dottiness; not that these things are of much earthly value, but at least they may keep you amused when the world is keeping you locked away or shutting you out.

Michael Leunig

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Christopher Finazzo had a great job that paid him millions of dollars, but this honest living was apparently not enough to satisfy his greed.

Loretta Lynch

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I am immensely contrite. And I'm sorry for the damage I've done.

Jayson Blair

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Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Douglas Horton

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I wanted Luke Cage to very much be an African American superhero rather than a superhero that happens to be black. I felt it was important to give him that cultural grounding but also show that it doesn't make him an obtuse or one-sided character.

Cheo Hodari Coker

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