Henry Louis Gates Quotes
My father was the funniest man I ever met. He made Redd Foxx look like an undertaker.
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I just want to do my job.
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But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
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I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
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I went to Australia and did a three day hike with my fiance through the wilderness, which was nice.
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I studied writing at university, and I actually majored in screenwriting. Then I went to work as a bookseller and then as a sales rep and publicist and then various editorial jobs until I ended up with HarperCollins in Australia.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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It's not easy, especially in our politically polarized world, to recognize both the structural and the cultural barriers that so many poor kids face. But I think that if you don't recognize both, you risk being heartless or condescending, and often both.
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They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.
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My job is to create myself a career that I can go to sleep satisfied with what I'm doing.
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When you're in a black group, you have to keep in mind you're not black. You just have to be sensitive. We have to be appreciative that the black nationalist struggle is a nationalist struggle.
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The magic of creation has always fascinated me.
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To other Canadians who are on journeys to defeat cancer and to live their lives, I say this: please don't be discouraged that my own journey hasn't gone as well as I had hoped. You must not lose your own hope.
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I find it always pleasurable talking with young people, particularly those aspiring to be writers, out of nostalgia, and because I've always felt that we oldies can learn so much from them and draw from them inspiration in our flagging and rickety years.
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My view is make Indian manufacturing competitive, and if it is competitive, it can serve customers or consumers anywhere.
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I love being in my 40s.
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I'm always sad to leave paradise, but I leave behind the hopes of coming again soon.
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Joe Cocker never sounded forced. Crazy, perhaps, but not forced.
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When it's mutual, a man and a woman know, instinctively, wordlessly. They may do nothing about it, but the knowledge of that shared desire is out there in the world - as obvious as neon, saying: I want you, I want you, I want you.
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Everything is designed to help you sell out.
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You kinda don't know what's going to make a good song. You've got to shoot around in the dark for a little while.
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My father was the funniest man I ever met. He made Redd Foxx look like an undertaker.
