Henry Louis Gates Quotes
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
Vanessa Kerry -
In my ideal world there would be 99% unemployment for actors, and I would be the 1% that's employed. I hear about somebody getting a job at Starbucks and I get jealous.
Hamish Linklater -
I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
Fiona Shaw -
Going to Europe as a budding cook opened my eyes to food in a different way. When I got to Italy, the first thing I did was put my little basil plants in the ground and watch them turn into big, healthy bushes.
Frances Mayes -
All the times I've been lucky enough to be a part of a show that's actually gotten on the air, it's always that same mixture of excitement and utter fear.
J. J. Abrams -
If you want to go east, don't go west.
Ramakrishna
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But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency.
Barney Frank -
Fate is not in man but around him.
Albert Camus -
In the street the rain was little more than a fine mist which softened the outlines of the houses and even lent a touch of poetry to a neighbourhood unlikely to evoke tender emotions. He raised his eyes to a roofline bristling with television aerials, lowered them again to windows still blank before the evening lights were lit.
Anita Brookner -
If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.
Douglas Rushkoff -
I was in fashion school, my brother has a law background, and my sister-in-law had worked in production, but none of us had a proper fashion business education.
Alexander Wang -
I want to go to college if I can. That's really important to me, and I really hope that I get that opportunity to do so.
Brynn Cartelli
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No one should have to live in fear.
Jeff Fortenberry -
I was born in 1966, at the beginning of the Biafran-Nigerian Civil War, and the war ended after three years. And I was growing up in school, and the federal government didn't want us taught about the history of the war, because they thought it probably would make us generate a new generation of rebels.
Chris Abani -
I love it when you like a character, and then she does something you don't like, and you hate her for a while - then you love her again. I'd like to see her have unlikable moments that the audience understands and sympathizes with.
Adelaide Kane -
I have heard Obama officials say more than once, 'You will have blood on your hands if you publish this story.'
Jill Abramson -
A racing driver has to be a good driver.
Emerson Fittipaldi -
You do get some weirdos, but if there are any nice people out there who want to write to me pleasantly, then they'll get a pleasant reply back!
Katie Price
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I don't judge. Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.
Twyla Tharp -
On my 30th birthday, all the presents I got were boxes of food. That's what I needed.
Kay Lenz -
When I am doing music, I sometimes become over compulsive to 'always make some new music'. I think I am like this because I sense what others are perceiving me as. If I work extraordinarily hard because of these expectations, I will, but I just cannot produce the good music that I want.
G-Dragon -
There may be challenges or crosses that may have delayed your goals temporarily, but now it’s time to move forward.
T. D. Jakes -
I think literacy is everything.
Henry Louis Gates