Henry Louis Gates Quotes

All historians generalize from particulars. And often, if you look at a historian's footnotes, the number of examples of specific cases is very, very small.

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• As regards literary culture, it fascinates me that it has been so resilient to the Union. For example, when T.S. Eliot wanted to become poet in these lands, it wasn't as an English poet, it was an Anglian poet he wanted to be.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Culture
  • Me
  • English

• If you can be a good example to other people, why not try to be that person? I have a bit of a people pleaser in me, but not so much so that it's out of control.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • People
  • Good
  • Control

• Muslims remain the most convenient target for prejudice in a city like Delhi, which is far more ghettoized than Bombay or Bangalore, for example.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • City
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• My father led by example. He wasn't much of a talker - he walked life.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Life
  • Father
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• When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Music
  • Important
  • Example

• The navigation of our inland waters has for years been sought in vain by foreign countries, and if we grant the privilege to Russia, other States will be guided in their demands by her example.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
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  • Russia

• Leading by example is the most powerful advice you can give to anybody.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
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• I am a daughter. My father is an example for me.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
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  • Daughter
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• Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Natural
  • Example
  • Objects

• We are the representatives of the cosmos; we are an example of what hydrogen atoms can do, given 15 billion years of cosmic evolution.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Years
  • Evolution
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• Procedures outside the stadiums and in the parking areas still need to be optimized, for example so that emergency medical services can leave the grounds on their way to the hospital faster.

  

  Otto Schily
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• I'm an example of someone who never made it to university. I did have this dream to be a musician. I felt that this dream had an expiration date.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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• The professionals must set a good example.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
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• None of us is designed for the role we must assume in a revolutionary society, although Cubans had the privilege of Jose Marti's example.

  

  Fidel Castro
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• I don't subscribe to the idea that the founders or anyone else were somehow better than us and that we have to live up to their example.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
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• There are a lot of artists who haven't lost anything to domesticity. In my case, it probably did happen.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
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• We are not meant to be seen as God's perfect, bright-shining examples, but to be seen as the everyday essence of ordinary life exhibiting the miracle of His grace.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • God
  • Perfect

• The English have this extraordianry respect for longevity. The best example of this was Queen Victoria, a most unpleasant woman who achieved a sort of public affection simply by living to be an enormous age.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Age
  • Respect
  • English

• For me the music community was always like a model for what could be. The way people would play together, just harmony and being - old guys and young guys, black guys and white guys. It was setting an example for what the rest of us could be.

  

  Bill Frisell
  • Together
  • Guy
  • Black

• Why is it not possible to build a church in Saudi Arabia where as we in the Netherlands have almost 500 mosques being built; why is it not possible to buy or sell a Bible in any Muslim or most of the Muslim countries, whereas we can buy a Koran here on every street corner? This is the exact example of the fact that Islam is an intolerant society.

  

  Geert Wilders
  • Country
  • Church
  • Facts

• Why do children dread mathematics? Because of the wrong approach. Because it is looked at as a subject.

  

  Shakuntala Devi
  • Children
  • Mathematics
  • Approach

• If, after hearing my songs, just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend, or perhaps to strike a loved one, it will all have been worth the while.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Song
  • Inspired
  • Humans

• All historians generalize from particulars. And often, if you look at a historian's footnotes, the number of examples of specific cases is very, very small.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
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