Henry Louis Gates Quotes
Color categories are on steroids in Latin America. I find that fascinating. It's very difficult for Americans, particularly African-Americans to understand or sympathize with.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.
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To be sure, ASPM isn't the gene responsible for building big brains - there's no such single gene. But it's critical to the process, and the primate line has almost certainly benefited from distinct changes in ASPM.
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Growing up, I was into 'Power Rangers.'
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Moderate people are able to be moderate and have free speech only because there are some people on the fringe.
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When I was a kid, like 14 or 15, I played with the waiters from the hotel, 'cause that was the best game. And these guys, they'd let me play. And they were black guys.
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Life certainly points it out to you - 'you can go this way or the other way.' You have to decide and it's a very strong decision because, would you sleep well knowing that you're living in the best place, but you're letting the place where you should live alone?
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I think extreme secrecy is a bad sign in all startups. Very few startups die because they tell you exactly how their technology works. On the long list of startup killers, that's pretty far down. Though on the list of entrepreneur fears, it's pretty high.
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I have the support of my parents and my teachers. They made it very possible for me to go to a school that is open and supportive of me being gone at times and pursuing acting. But school always comes first for me.
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Imagine how different those classrooms could be if hundreds of Nigeria's most talented recent graduates and professionals channeled their energy not only into the country's banks, but into making education in the country a force for transformation.
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And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them.
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We belong to talking, not what talking is about... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.
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Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.
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Capital was really safer in Russia than anywhere else. ... No true Marxist would allow sentiment to interfere with business.
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For our family, learning was everything. Homework came first; books, being sacred, were never to be left on the floor.
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I feel like what's made me the player I am is always being willing to take the challenge.
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My life was a sort of series of random disasters.
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I'm not ashamed to tell the truth about what happened in my family. I think that's what makes my comedy different.
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All good hotels tend to lead people to do things they wouldn't necessarily do at home.
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[When] Johnny Mnemonic was coming out and I realized that all the kids that worked in 7-11 knew more - or thought they knew more - about feature film production than I did. And that was from reading Premiere, that was from this change that came from magazines that treat their readers as players. Magazines that purport to sell you the inside experience.
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I've got a great eye for color. I'm like a chick.
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I think, anyone in the arts, you're self-employed; it's so difficult.
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Color categories are on steroids in Latin America. I find that fascinating. It's very difficult for Americans, particularly African-Americans to understand or sympathize with.
