Henry Louis Gates Quotes

Each individual has a responsibility to get out of bed, learn their ABCs, learn your math tables, not use race and racism as an excuse.

Henry Louis Gates

• Responsibility
• Individual
• Racism
• Math
• Excuse

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• Racism is a physical experience.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Experience
  • Racism
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• I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Responsibility
  • Liberty

• Certainly by the time I was in seventh grade, I knew I had to have a long education if I wanted to become an astronomer, but I figured I'd try it, and if I didn't get far enough, I could always end up teaching in high school or math or physics.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • People
  • Writing
  • Political

• I feel a responsibility to the fans who have paid to see me and I want to give as good a show as I possibly can.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Good
  • Me
  • Responsibility

• I have always looked at my competencies before accepting any responsibility.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Responsibility
  • Always

• Quality is everyone's responsibility.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Work
  • Responsibility
  • Quality

• The Marine Corps is some of the best acting training you could have. Having that responsibility for people's lives, suddenly time becomes a really valuable commodity and you want to make the most of it. And for acting, you just have to do the work, just keep doing it.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Doing business and doing good are not mutually exclusive, and it is our responsibility to prove this every day anew.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • Good
  • Business
  • Day

• When you take on something like your footprint on the environment, you have to say, 'Where am I going to draw the circle around my level of responsibility and then where do I assume that others will take responsibility?'

  

  Sally Jewell
  • You
  • Responsibility
  • Environment

• My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Desire
  • Wish
  • Responsibility

• Certainly it is a blessing to have three beautiful kids who are all healthy. God put them here for me to nurture and bring them up and try to keep as close to right as I can. So it's a blessing. It's a big responsibility, but at the same time it's an honor.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Up
  • Time
  • God

• I remember the first reading of the script we had and everybody was sitting around the table. I was very impressed with the level of acting that was in the room, particularly with Jennifer who has so much responsibility.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Remember
  • Reading
  • Responsibility

• I do take responsibility for it. I admit to having a problem. I have been to numerous treatment centers.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • Problem
  • Responsibility

• At the risk of sounding really corny now, I'm a career prosecutor. I've been doing this for a very long time. And I believe in holding people responsible when they violate the law. But our sole responsibility is to seek justice. And sometimes that means a very lengthy sentence for people who are dangerous and from which society must be protected.

  

  Sally Yates
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Hope
  • Earth
  • Responsibility

• I've always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping others. Just as I think it's important to run companies well, with a close eye to the bottom line, I think you have to use your entrepreneurial experience to make corporate philanthropy effective.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Important
  • Experience
  • Responsibility

• This election presents a stark choice - we can continue down the road of the Obama Democrats, more and more spending, debt and government control of the economy, or we can return to the founding principles of our nation - free markets, fiscal responsibility and individual liberty.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Free
  • Control
  • Responsibility

• Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Great
  • Soul
  • Faith

• There is a revolution coming. It will not be like revolutions of the past. It will originate with the individual and with culture . . .

  

  Charles A. Reich
  • Past
  • Culture
  • Revolution

• Everywhere you look - Britain, the States, western Europe - people are sealing themselves into crime-free enclaves. That's a mistake - a certain level of crime is part of the necessary roughage of life. Total security is a disease of deprivation.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • People
  • Life
  • Free

• I have not cared for money, and I enjoy working. Money comes my way. People work hard so they get enough money. Or they work hard so they don't have to work hard later in life. But though I don't need money, I still work hard because I like what I am doing.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I grew up in a Navy family, and like most service families, we traveled a lot and moved a lot. I grew up on both coasts and in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., in Rockville, Maryland, and have had a great time doing it.

  

  Alan G. Poindexter
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• Each individual has a responsibility to get out of bed, learn their ABCs, learn your math tables, not use race and racism as an excuse.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Responsibility
  • Individual
  • Racism