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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I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.
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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 try to pride myself on being involved with the fans and taking pictures when they're asked for because I know I was that little kid one day that really looked up to stars like myself, and I try to give them that on my behalf.
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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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Life is really hard for some people.
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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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Try not to turn your life into a race, least of all an obstacle race.
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The only thing worth doing is what's never been done before.
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And, sure, if you have a political point of view, you have every right to share it. But you have to be careful not to get too self-important. You have to find the balance between being entertaining and being preachy.
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I put up some great numbers.
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Diversity doesn't mean black and white only.