Henry Louis Gates Quotes
It turns out one of my ancestors fought in the Continental Army, so I was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution.
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As in any technological revolution, there will be winners and losers. On balance, everyone will come out ahead, although there will be particular companies that will not be able to cope with a new environment.
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The only people that have ever fought ISIS in Syria is not the regime; it is the Free Syrian Army.
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My wrestling and family go together. It's always been that way, from day one with my mom and dad, my sister, my wife, four daughters, grandsons, son-in-laws.
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We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution.
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I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung.
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We lived in Germany; my father was in the Army, and they figured I would have more consistency at boarding school. That kind of gives you a thick skin.
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We glorify the Holy Ghost together with the Father and the Son, from the conviction that He is not separated from the Divine Nature; for that which is foreign by nature does not share in the same honors.
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I would never say that being Bob Marley's son has been a pressure. It has been a door opener.
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Mubarak's regime is dead and finished. People will not go back to this. This is a farce being propagated by the Muslim Brotherhood to say that this revolution was supported by the remnants of the Mubarak regime. They have gone against the whole Egyptian society, and this is why they were removed.
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My dad is from the army, and so we studied all over. I had done an Onida campaign at the age of two, as my mom always had this inclination for me to model, but my dad was clear that I could model only when I turned 18, so immediately after school, I started modelling.
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I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.
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There were people in Cuba who truly had substantial things to gain from revolution. There were people who had things to lose in the revolution. I think they're all allowed to have their memories of what happened.
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The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.
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For me, the struggle for women's human rights began the moment I was born in Tehran at the height of the Iranian Revolution, a time when the status of women was quickly deteriorating.
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The main difference between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution was that the former was mostly the work of Communist party members and others who wanted to bring about 'socialism with a human face.'
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Israel is in the grip of a ghetto mentality. We have a powerful army. We have the atomic bomb. But the psychology of what comes out of Israel has the tone of the Warsaw Ghetto.
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Every father and son have conflicts.
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If my strength is technology, financial structuring is my son's skill.
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Alas! A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections - a mere heart of stone.
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It is only after that we understand what has come before, then we understand nothing. Thus we shall define the soul as follows: that which precedes everything.
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I'm always jumping in my seat or gasping during a good horror movie.
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You want to be yourself, idiosyncratic; the collective (school, rules, jobs, technology) wants you generic to the point of castration.
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Looking at everything I've done in my career as a footballer, at all the titles, I believe that what's hugely important is motivation.
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It turns out one of my ancestors fought in the Continental Army, so I was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution.
