Henry Louis Gates Quotes
My father was the funniest man I ever met. He made Redd Foxx look like an undertaker.
Henry Louis Gates
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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.
Gautam Gambhir
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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.
J. D. Vance
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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.
Oscar Robertson
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
M. Esther Harding
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Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.
Aaron Yoo
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My job is to create myself a career that I can go to sleep satisfied with what I'm doing.
Kate del Castillo
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The dress of a woman of Lhassa, in its place is an invisible element of that place made visible.
Wallace Stevens
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Positive, adj. Mistaken at the top of one's voice.
Ambrose Bierce
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I've never put out a song that I wasn't completely proud of and that I didn't love. In that sense, I've never felt like I sold out in any way.
John Roger Stephens
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George Clooney and Brad Pitt, with those 'Oceans' films they do, they get to work together, make a whole lot of money, and make a major film statement. Imagine if once a year, myself, Denzel Washington, Laurence Fishburne, James Earl Jones, we did some relevant film together to make a statement.
Louis Gossett, Jr.
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Jeans should never be worn to someone's home if you are having dinner there.
Letitia Baldrige
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My father was the funniest man I ever met. He made Redd Foxx look like an undertaker.
Henry Louis Gates
