Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes

The thing people have to remember is there's nothing natural about racism as it exists in America. I mean, we know this historically. We can look at 1619, when Africans first came here, and how early African slaves intermixed pretty indiscriminately with indentured white servants.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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I don't think there's any music that you hear on the radio today that would be possible without Jimi Hendrix. Rock, blues-rock, heavy metal, any guitar stuff when you get right down to it - Jimi did it. He's certainly the guy who basically invented the blues-rock genre for guitar players.

Joe Bonamassa

MusicTodayThinkGuitarYouDown

Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible.

Max Weber

TruthTimeExperienceManImpossible

I spend plenty of time in London and it doesn't scare me, but it's a lonely place, even if you've got friends there. My job takes me all around the world, meeting lots of interesting people. But I think if I couldn't get home, if I couldn't get back to what I consider my real life I'd be frightened.

Shirley Henderson

LifeHomeTimeJobPeopleWorld

At first, when 'Boxer' came out, people were a little let down, and we worried that it might be the end for us. But then it began to grow on people. 'Boxer' bought us our creative freedom.

Matt Berninger

FreedomCreativePeopleEndGrow

I love dark chocolate, 70 percent and up.

Mary Steenburgen

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A lot of times in life, women want to talk, but men don't want to listen, and if they do want to listen, they turn it back to themselves.

Mike Colter

LifeWomenMenBackWantTalk

If Trump actually wants to help those who have been left behind, he must go beyond the ideological battles of the past.

Joseph Stiglitz

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We have a substantial number of countries that have pledged and provided all kinds of support for the United States in the event that war becomes necessary in Iraq.

Douglas Feith

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I always have a strange feeling that projects choose you. It's always mysterious.

Denis Villeneuve

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I'm not a naturally social-media inclined person. I still prefer phone calls to texts/emails. I... hate texts.

Constance Wu

HatePhonePersonPhone CallsStill

I fervently believe that education is the key to moving forward.

Chuck Fleischmann

EducationMoving ForwardMovingKey

There are so many songs out there in the world that - if I know we have to come up with a new cover, then I'll just sit in my room and sing song after song and figure out which one I can kind of sing the best.

Britt Daniel

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