Henry Louis Gates Quotes
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In combat sports, personalities are what draw.
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Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.
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I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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Small businesses want things streamlined, and one of the great successes we're having is less paperwork, faster turnaround times.
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Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
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I don't happen to approve of plastic surgery. I think God put plastic surgeons on this earth for good reasons - people get burned or people might have a nose like Pinocchio and that has to be fixed. But to just chop yourself up to look a few years younger? You could come out looking like a Picasso picture.
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I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.
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I'm someone that never likes to overpower the girls in hair and makeup.
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Hell is paved with good intentions.
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It is man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age.
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Even atheists rebel and express, like Hardy and Housman, their rage against God although (or because) He does not, on their view, exist...
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It captures a lot of the spirit of the '50s.
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What I feel is that true creation happens when you're making something out of nothing - like it's divine, you know. Creation is a completely divine concept.
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When your culture comes from watching TV every day, you're bombarded with images of things that seem cool, places that seem interesting, people who have jobs and careers and opportunities. None of that happened where I was. You're almost taught to realize it's not for you.
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There's not a sport or activity in life where you have a really hard grip, you actually do better. Whether it's baseball or golf or kicking a ball, the looser you are, the further the thing goes... If you're tight, you're not necessarily better.
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Nevada is a little different than most states. We only meet every other year in the legislature. So it's very important to have good relationships on both sides of the aisle... I have to have those relationships.
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For ages, in my lunch hours, I would just go round and choreograph fight scenes. For fun. So now I'm very good at being thrown around. I bounce, in the words of my friends.
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I wish I had more time to read. I'm always traveling.
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Maybe I was destined to forever fall in love with people I couldn’t have. Maybe there’s a whole assortment of impossible people waiting for me to find them. Waiting to make me feel the same impossibility over and over again.
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Homosexuality is like an inside baseball thing. It's like a gag that people share; 'How is your husband?' But when it comes to bringing diversity to a broader audience, suddenly it's a different road. It's what we call 'a risk.' Isn't it our responsibility to elevate the standards and change people's perceptions?
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My short attention span has allowed me a life of diversity in work and place.
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Our culture today that we live in is getting so diverse, yet in Hollywood, there's not a lot of diversity.
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Diversity doesn't mean black and white only.
