Henry Louis Gates Quotes
People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety.
Henry Louis Gates
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Truth-tellers who expect others to believe them tend to speak naturally and un-self-consciously. But if they don't expect to be believed, they may try too hard to seem honest. Unfortunately, the result makes them sound less believable. Obviously, then, not every oddly phrased statement is a lie.
Pamela Meyer
Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.
P. J. O'Rourke
There are two kinds of people on this Earth: Those who are content and those who are not.
Francesco Quinn
Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.
Barbara Bush
A lot of my solo albums were produced by different people who had their idea of what songs I should do, and they had me doing a lot of ballads.
Aaron Neville
People always say there's no such thing as bad publicity, and you always think they're right, because it seems self-evident: nobody's going to buy a magazine that nobody ever talks about, so people should want to buy a magazine that everybody's talking about.
Rachel Johnson
My senior leadership team is half people who have been at GM for a long period of time like me, and others who have joined the company within the last five years from different industries, experiences, and countries. You have a better picture of the world. The diversity of thought is where you can make better business decisions.
Mary Barra
I don't know if many people know this about me, but I have multiple sclerosis. So I don't have time for a lot of shades of gray. I don't have time for BS.
Neil Cavuto
I'm not cool with ACORN or the working families' party, or people that vote like democrats and run on Republican lines.
Doug Hoffman
If you listen to a lot of the songs that are popular now, there's very little melody in there. People love the beat. But to musicians, it's melody, because we understand how elusive it is and how hard it is to hold.
Branford Marsalis
I am not on social media, as I don't feel the need to communicate with the outside world. People who matter to me are just a call away.
Barun Sobti
I'm inspired by people who are unapologetically themselves, from Bill Cosby to Fahim Anwar. Just funny people.
Jerrod Carmichael
I hate throwing personal things away, especially my cards. As I know I won't be dancing for ever, these are the things that I will look back on.
Darcey Bussell
I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.
S. E. Hinton
I didn't go to film school, I went to acting school.
Charles S. Dutton
Some people call it fearless, some people call it confidence. And I feel I'm confident of whatever I do.
Sachin Tendulkar
If you are going to be serving a living thing, you have to honor that living thing with some kind of care and thought and preparation to rationalize the taking of that life in some way. Where if you're just grinding up hamburger at McDonald's, I see that as a bit of an affront to living things.
Bryan Fuller
People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety.
Henry Louis Gates
