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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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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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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I like to get up early in the morning and run.
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I like to play paintball in my back yard.
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Modeling is the best because you have to look hot, which comes easy to me, you know. I'm blessed with that.
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Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
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I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.
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Stealing bases is just something I like to do. I figure if I can hit home runs and steal bases, I'd be different than everybody else.
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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.
