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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An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.
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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 have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.
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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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Private equity funds a substantial amount of new businesses and is the source of capital to rejuvenate failing businesses, which are major drivers of job growth in this economy.
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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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Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
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This country is not built on one culture alone. We all make up this industry.
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Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion. And it has been proven as much of an illusion in Stalinist Russia as it proven an illusion in pre-Hitler Germany. Communism in anything but name was abandoned in Russia when the Five-Year Plan was substituted for the New Economic Policy (NEP) after Lenin’s death.
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Friends can have different dreams and do different things.
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I think 99 percent of actors have gone through severe rejection before they ever landed a single role. I probably auditioned for 100 projects before I was cast in even the smallest role.
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My father was the funniest man I ever met. He made Redd Foxx look like an undertaker.
