Henry Louis Gates Quotes

We really invented the genre of tracing family trees and going back as far as we could on the paper trail. When the paper trail disappeared, we used DNA analysis. The technology was just being invented that allowed you to trace ancestry through DNA.

Henry Louis Gates

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• In one week, I went from being a girl who owed a guy thousands of dollars - my manager Anthony was paying for my outfits, paying for my food; I was sleeping in his parents' basement - to taking meetings with every major label in America. The next morning, I had a record deal and wrote him a cheque to pay back all that money.

  

  Halsey
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  • America
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• I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • People
  • Want
  • Always

• Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Animal
  • Strange
  • Very

• Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Party
  • Democracy
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• I'd always wanted to do a Marvel project, and I'd always imagined getting to play one of the superheroes because it's such a hard thing to get. It's the parts that only go to a few people. The flip side of that is the antagonists are pretty awesome.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Play

• I can never find a movie I want to watch, even though I've got hundreds to choose from.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Movie
  • Want
  • Find

• 'Punk rock' is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts, the souls, the time and the minds of young men who give everything they have to it.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• My extreme characters are in a state of rebellion or who are being ostracized or being misunderstood, or misfits or trying to fit in and fighting for their rights to love, live, and co-exist. They sort of mirror my own demons.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Characters
  • Rights
  • State

• When I did these psychological characters like the drug addicts, the ones who were rejected and dejected, I started to feel a sort of melancholia which was very unnatural for me to have at a teenage. Then I avoided those characters.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Feel
  • Characters
  • Rejected

• I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Night
  • Girl
  • Dad

• I'm proud to be part of the fabric that inspires the next generations to remain curious and remember that 'smart is cool.'

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Remember
  • Proud
  • Cool

• I have only one real enemy in my life that I know about, and that is John Houseman. Everything begins and ends with that hostility behind the mandarin benevolence.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Life
  • Real
  • Enemy

• If you believe your catcher is intelligent and you know that he has considerable experience, it is a good thing to leave the game almost entirely in his hands.

  

  Bob Feller
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Experience

• American capitalists, enthralled by the doctrines of finance, have put their income statements in service of the balance sheet.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • American
  • Service
  • Balance

• I don't believe that you have to be a cow to know what milk is.

  

  Ann Landers
  • Believe

• It's good to feel stupid sometimes and do things that are out of your comfort zone.

  

  Mary-Louise Parker
  • Good
  • Stupid

• I've always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.

  

  Bo Jackson
  • Kids

• I need that aggressive attitude to play my music and more men have that attitude than women.

  

  Lita Ford
  • Music
  • Men
  • Women

• As analytical pharmacologists, what we are allowed to see of a new molecule's properties is totally dependent on the techniques of bioassay we use.

  

  James Black

• Many kids, particularly in lower-income families, would actually benefit from more structured activities. Plenty of children, especially teenagers, thrive on a busy schedule. But just as other trappings of modern childhood, from homework to technology, are subject to the law of diminishing returns, there is a danger of overscheduling the young.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Law

• You can always improve on something, the technology is different today, but I would leave it well alone. If there was something that was incomplete, that might be interesting... because I do that on my website.

  

  Dave Davies The Kinks
  • Different
  • Today
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• A good story can take you on a fantastic journey.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Good
  • Journey
  • Story

• I am writing this during my free . . . oops! un-assigned period, at the end of my first day of teaching. So far, I have taught nothing — but I have learned a great deal. To wit: We have to punch a time clock and abide by the Rules. We must make sure our students likewise abide, and that they sign the time sheet whenever they leave or reenter a room. We have keys but no locks (except in lavatories), blackboards but no chalk, students but no seats, teachers but no time to teach. The library is closed to the students.

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Writing
  • Free
  • Learned

• We really invented the genre of tracing family trees and going back as far as we could on the paper trail. When the paper trail disappeared, we used DNA analysis. The technology was just being invented that allowed you to trace ancestry through DNA.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Technology
  • Tree
  • Analysis