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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• I have a 6-year-old daughter, and we never look through magazines. But when we're on a plane, that's the one time we have screen-time and magazine-time sometimes. And I do not open a magazine with her without saying: 'Now remind me, are these real pictures?'

  

  Alysia Reiner
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• Are we, as humans, gaining any insight on how to talk about ourselves and how something as abstract as a Charlie Parker record gets us into a dialogue about our emotions and our thoughts? Sometimes we lose sight that the music has a wider context. So I want to continue those dialogues. Those are the things I want to foster.

  

  Jason Moran
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• If you want to live your whole life free from pain,you must either be a god or a corpse.

  

  Steve Berry
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• When you're starting a company, almost anything that can go wrong will go wrong, and it will probably look like and feel like you made the absolute wrong decision to start the company. If you're not absolutely determined to solve a problem or see something through, it might not make sense to keep going.

  

  Logan Green
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• If I'm with a man I'm soft and buttery.

  

  Diana Ross
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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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