Henry Louis Gates Quotes

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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.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• 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.'

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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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.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• '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.

  

  Larenz Tate
  • World
  • Different
  • Society

• What you do on tour is you build this 'You and me against the world' thing.

  

  Garth Brooks
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  • Against
  • Tour

• I have no great message to the world.

  

  Orson Welles
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  • Great
  • Message

• 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.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • World
  • Power
  • Man

• 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.

  

  Barbara Park
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  • Black
  • Black-and-white

• 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.

  

  Flume
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  • Like

• 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.

  

  Laura Chinchilla
  • World
  • Hope
  • Destiny

• 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.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • World
  • Powerful
  • Training

• And in a world without heroes, as the movie trailer voice-over guy might say, the slightly awkward can be slightly cool.

  

  Adam Brody
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  • Movie
  • Guy

• Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world.

  

  Carl Sagan
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  • Science

• You are my evil spirit... you and the hard course world!

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
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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.

  

  Clive James
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  • War

• Colliers International is committed to being a market leader in all major U.S. markets as well as key financial centers around the world.

  

  Dylan Taylor
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  • Financial

• The best holiday I went on as a kid was to Disney World. I wore the same Minnie Mouse dress for 5 days straight and refused to go on any rides apart from It's A Small World. I think my parents wanted to kill me.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • World
  • Parents
  • Small

• I always say that my favorite people to interview are the people who are at the beginning and the ends of their lives because they have two alternate perspectives of the world, and neither of them are less profound.

  

  Brandon Stanton
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  • Beginning

• Lysistrata: O women, if we would compel the men to bow to Peace, ... We must refrain from every depth of love.... Why do you turn your backs? Where are you going? Why do you bite your lips and shake your heads? Why are your faces blanched? Why do you weep? (tr. Lindsay 1925, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes
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  • Women
  • Why

• I just noticed recently that in one book after another I seem to find an excuse to find some character who, to put it idiotically simply, is allowed to talk crazy.

  

  Jonathan Lethem
  • Character
  • Book
  • Crazy

• I am an advocate for going to the doctor and going every year. I make sure that part of the checkup is spent talking about my heart with my doctor, and getting my numbers checked, and discussing the results. And I make sure that I understand the answers to my questions.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Heart

• I was the only person of color in the Senate, and my colleagues were Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms and Trent Lott.

  

  Carol Moseley Braun
  • Color
  • Persons
  • Senate

• To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must lose a good name to him, before you can win it for yourself.

  

  William Congreve
  • Play
  • Winning
  • Names

• Brazil is the second blackest nation in the world.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
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