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

  

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

  

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• Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social 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
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• I can never find a movie I want to watch, even though I've got hundreds to choose from.

  

  Rachel Nichols
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• '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.

  

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• 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
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• 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.

  

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  • Feel
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• When I first started, I wasn't really aware of anything in the industry or aware of who I really was. I just put my music out there and tried to get as many people to hear it as possible. I hadn't really thought about the kind of music I wanted to make.

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

  Lita Ford
  • Music
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• Working with men like Al Pacino, Tommy Lee Jones, Michael Douglas, Edward Norton, David Morse, and Kevin Costner, you have to step up and look them dead in the eye and, you know, scare them. I can see it when it happens, and they don't know it's coming. It's the best look on any man's face when he gets paired with a woman and he doesn't expect her to kick his ass. I'm not saying I've kicked any of their asses, but I feel like I have held my own and said, "I am a force to be reckoned with." It's about not being intimidated. I feel it makes me a stronger woman.

  

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• Digital technology has thrown a closed shop wide open, and there are more people out there snapping away than ever before. Some of the pictures are bad, some of them are good, and many of them need some seasoning and direction.

  

  Joe McNally
  • People
  • Good
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• The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them.

  

  George Eliot
  • Law
  • Medicine
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• Evolution teaches us the original purpose of language was to ritualize men's threats and curses, his spells to compel the gods; communication came later.

  

  Gene Wolfe
  • Men
  • Purpose
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• 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