Henry Louis Gates Quotes
The story of the African-American people is the story of the settlement and growth of America itself, a universal tale that all people should experience.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.
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Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
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I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.
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Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we've also been sucking precious finite resources from our environment ever since.
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I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.
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My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.
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But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer.
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Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.
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I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent.
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But the character was so successful, that first one, that they wrote him again and he came in right at the end of the first year in a show called THE BOX. I was up for the Emmy for that one too.
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In international relations, in foreign policy, a great deal has to do with historical circumstances, a great deal has to do with the sense and perception of people.
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I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, because nobody else played that kind of music.
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I just worked my own personal thoughts into my music, and just kept at it until I found a way in.
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I think the most important thing for me in a relationship is honesty.
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The emotional stuff is the biggest challenge, for me to access that. As life passes, you encounter difficulties and tragedies, and so it becomes easier. 'Carnivale' required that of me, and it was really hard.
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We would be silly to say that race issues don't exist in 2014.
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Social media is simply a tool that facilitates actions.
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Never use your own money. Steal a good idea and say it's your own. Do anything to get publicity. Remember that everybody can be bought.
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English history turned on Henry VIII and his desires, his whims almost. And it was down to Cromwell to make those desires happen. He was the guy that fixed it. He was also the guy that eased Henry's conscience. Because Henry VIII had an enormous, tender conscience and great theological knowledge.
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At times, I've referred to Christ's miracles, and have said, 'Well, Christ multiplied the fish and the loaves to feed the people. That is precisely what we want to do with the Revolution and socialism.'
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When I approach any script, I always try to find what I would relate to most in it.
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My life as an actor has submerged me completely because I don't know why.
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The story of the African-American people is the story of the settlement and growth of America itself, a universal tale that all people should experience.
