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 -
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 -
If you want to go east, don't go west.
Ramakrishna -
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
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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 -
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
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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 -
I think to be a good songwriter, you have to be able to play an instrument.
Joe Cocker -
I'm not a traditional sonero, at least not in the way they want me to be, I'm an interpreter, and I reach people in a different level.
Marc Anthony
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Our company, it's, uh, really un-sexy. And I think most people get into Hollywood to be showy. We first of all make horror movies, which people turn their noses up at. Second of all, we make cheap movies, and Hollywood's a lot about ego and money and, 'My movie cost $200m!,' you know?
Jason Blum -
Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
Anthony Trollope -
Funk is the unending cycle of life. It's the ultimate concept—wherever your imagination will take it.
Xenobia Bailey -
Great people have great egos; maybe that's what makes them great.
Paul Arden -
To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language.
William Cullen Bryant -
I think literacy is everything.
Henry Louis Gates