Henry Louis Gates Quotes

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.

Henry Louis Gates

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• I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.

  

  Yelawolf
  • People
  • Up
  • You

• If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's going to happen next? What's that character going to do?' But you know, you never really need to watch the films you made again. They stay inside you, always with you.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Wind

• It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Up
  • Danger
  • Protection

• There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.

  

  Xenophon
  • May
  • Small
  • Best

• Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Great
  • God
  • Fear

• Well, first I have to make the team, of course.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Team
  • First
  • Well

• I was very precocious when I was young. I went to college at 16, and I graduated at 20. I wanted to be a writer, but I was more interested in experience than in applying myself intellectually.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Experience
  • College
  • Myself

• China may censor YouTube. China may censor Twitter. They won't be able to censor Bitcoin. There's no central authority. There's no one you can go to and say, 'We're going to turn Bitcoin off.'

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • May
  • China
  • Bitcoin

• The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.

  

  Yash Chopra
  • Great
  • Love
  • Food

• When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.

  

  Gao Xingjian
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Words

• There are over 7,000 different types of proteins in typical eukaryotic cells; the total number depends on the cell class and function.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Different
  • Class
  • Cells

• I feel it's tougher for the guys, because if I break up with them, then they can go on and be forced to watch me on TV every day. I don't see them.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Up
  • Me
  • Day

• Anybody who has spent time with the networks - in fact, you don't even have to spend time with the networks, all you have to do is just watch primetime TV - and you think, 'What the hell are they doing? I could run the network better.' And I think everybody feels that way.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Time
  • Doing
  • Hell

• We would be silly to say that race issues don't exist in 2014.

  

  Candice Patton
  • Race
  • Silly
  • Exist

• I grew up in the upper class, for sure. My family was kind of about that whole parties-and-horse racing thing. I can understand it's fun for some. I never enjoyed it.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Up
  • Family
  • Fun

• I probably enjoy campaigning more than most other people in public office because I like people and I enjoy going out there and telling people what I've done.

  

  Ed Koch
  • People
  • Done
  • Enjoy

• Painting is the art of hollowing a surface.

  

  Georges Seurat
  • Art
  • Painting
  • Surface

• Basically, I didn't know anything about fashion. I was very nerdy; I went to Bryn Mawr and never even noticed models when I was 21.

  

  Fatima Siad
  • Know
  • Fashion
  • Never

• I don’t care if you call it AO for Adults Only, or Chopped Liver or Father Goose. Your movie will still have the stigma of being in a category that’s going to be inhabited by the very worst of pictures.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • Movie
  • Father

• I've always been serious that way, trying to evolve to a more conscious state. Funny thing about that,though. You tweak yourself,looking for more love, less lust, more compassion, less jealousy. You keep tweaking, keep adjusting those knobs until you can no longer find the original settings. In some sense,the original settings are exactly what I'm looking for-a return to the easygoing guy i was before my world got complicated, the nice guy who took things as they came and laughed so hard the blues would blow away in the summer wind.

  

  Bill Withers
  • World
  • Trying
  • Guy

• Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Art
  • Justice
  • Censorship