Henry Louis Gates Quotes
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.
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People say, 'How does having kids change your writing? Do you see the world through their eyes?' No - you just become a faster songwriter... In the old days, you'd be like, 'Oh I'm gonna work on this song for a few days.'
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The world is shifting from a hegemonic era, where the United States dominated alone, to a multipolar system.
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Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
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'Menace II Society' itself was a groundbreaking film. It's definitely going to go in the vaults of classics in all of cinema. The Hughes Brothers created an incredible project. Just gave the world something a little different than what we had seen in previous films in that same genre.
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What you do on tour is you build this 'You and me against the world' thing.
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I have no great message to the world.
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It rests in the hands of the common person as well as those with the power to shape humanity's course toward a world where every child, woman and man's most basic needs are met.
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I like to think that Junie B. looks at the world - and this isn't a negative comment on her - from the lowest common denominator. It's not all gray to her; it's all black and white.
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Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.
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When you become a mother, you think less about yourself and care more about the world.
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I've been having meetings with people, just everywhere in the world, and it's like, 'Hey, really love you to work with me, send me some ideas.' That's the crazy part.
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The Internet is the hope of an integrated world without frontiers, a common world without controlling owners, a world of opportunities and equality. This is a utopia that we have been dreaming about and is a world in which each and every one of us are protagonists of a destiny that we have in our hands.
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By the 2010s, almost everybody in the developed world, it seemed, had a powerful digital device that took little or no special skills or training to use.
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And in a world without heroes, as the movie trailer voice-over guy might say, the slightly awkward can be slightly cool.
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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world.
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You are my evil spirit... you and the hard course world!
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I was born in 1939. The other big event of that year was the outbreak of the Second World War, but for the moment that did not affect me.
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The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.
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Anthony Johnson hits harder than any other person, no doubt. Every time he hit me, it made me kind of, like, fly all over the place. He was trying to take my head off.
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While you're setting something up that's educational for yourself, you have an opportunity to teach others at the same time.
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Actually, I have an interest in finishing my Ph.D., but I just know I never will.
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Brazil is the second blackest nation in the world.
