Henry Louis Gates Quotes

I knew that there were black people in Africa, of course, unfortunately because of movies such as 'Tarzan.'

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• I don't know if I'm selfless - I still want to make a great record. I want to make a hit record. I want to tour; that's not completely selfless. But the truth is I'm not interested in people coming to my show for me as much as I am for them coming to my show for themselves. That's always been how I am.

  

  Lady Gaga
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• For me, acting is becoming naked in front of people, you know? And when you know in the back of your mind somebody is testing you, you cannot really bare yourself. That's a feeling I always have when I'm auditioning.

  

  Irrfan Khan
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• The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.

  

  Iris Murdoch
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• You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and that's enough.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
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• I believe that, as actors, we have a phenomenal platform to spread positivity and influence people in the same way.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
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• We used to say poor people had lousy genes. Then we decided that wasn't OK, but we transferred the prejudice to upbringing. We said, 'You were neglected as a child, so you'll never make it.' That's just as pernicious.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
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• I know this independence is what people like most about my brand.

  

  Raf Simons
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• Unlike people, companies outlive their founders and their leaders.

  

  Ursula Burns
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• I used to like humorous people in the past, but these days, I like serious people more.

  

  Park Shin-hye
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• I don't know if people are born with a worldview or if their thinking is a product of their environment.

  

  Dana Perino
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• Apart from being celebrities, there's a huge amount of respect associated with being cricketers and a certain amount of reverence and honour associated with representing India. In people's eyes, apart from other celebrities in India, I think for sportsmen in India there's a certain amount of regard.

  

  Rahul Dravid
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• People keep saying how amazing it is having a female lead, and I just sort of feel, 'Well, of course!'

  

  Felicity Jones
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• Among the many things that have slipped up on me while my back was turned are all of these challenging and well-manicured public courses that have sprung up across America with elegant bars and restaurants.

  

  Dan Jenkins
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• I recently found out about this other super movie star. He only works from about 11:00 to 4:00, so all his movies take like 120 days. But this was a lot of stuff to do in 35 days.

  

  Dana Carvey
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• I know I speak for everyone in these islands, all parties, all our people, when I say to Mr. Smith tonight: 'Prime Minister, think again'.

  

  Harold Wilson
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• … let's all remember that we have a government 'of the people, for the people, and by the people', and there are very few people in our government that you can't buy.

  

  Pat Paulsen
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• No matter how much we disagree with people, demonising them doesn't get us anywhere; it merely indicates a closed mind.

  

  Lindsay Duncan
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• We must again carry the burden of our people and shoulder our commitment to leading them to the promised land.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
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• When I think about the most exotic, beautiful places, Porto is at the front of my mind. It's incredible, man. You have an idea of what Europe is like as an American, and people talk about Paris, Berlin and Stockholm, which are all great, but it wasn't until I went to Porto that I felt that idea of this exotic, beautiful, timeless place.

  

  Kevin Morby
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• We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect.

  

  Hannes Alfven
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• Many poor and low-income women cannot afford to purchase contraceptive services and supplies on their own.

  

  Louise Slaughter
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• I shall go home now. You have to know when your time is up. I knew that with the Liberal Democrats, and I know that now, in Bosnia.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
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• You like it when someone becomes a pop-culture icon and deserves it.

  

  Jonathan Klein
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• I knew that there were black people in Africa, of course, unfortunately because of movies such as 'Tarzan.'

  

  Henry Louis Gates
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