Henry Louis Gates Quotes
We have chaos reigning in the Middle East. There is a great deal of instability. In the past, people would have turned to their church, and some still do. Counterintuitively, people are now turning into themselves to find their roots. The way you do that is through your family tree. "Where did I come from?" There is an urge to preserve the names of the people who produced you.
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Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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I miss my horse. He's in Los Angeles.
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I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.
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I think '80s pop music subconsciously informs what I'm doing.
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I can't figure out how you can hire a coach and tell him how you want him to play.
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
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Before I went to New Orleans, I was a little scared of New Orleans. I don't know why. I had only been there a few times. Something about it made me feel nervous, knowing a bit about the history.
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I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research.
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Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.
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I'm a country girl at heart.
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I was never a model-y model. I was doing it as a job, but people didn't even know I was a model.
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We would be silly to say that race issues don't exist in 2014.
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You can do the same thing with $20 million that you would do with $50 million. So at a certain point in your life and in your career, you realise that it's not about the money.
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I'm entranced by the idea of reading the culture back to itself, because I'm conscious that we as people and also as a culture are myth-making machines. So I'm interested in a resistance to that: What we can bend, what we can break.
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There is no point in regretting any part of the past. The past can't now be altered, the future has yet to be lived, and consciously to experience every moment of the present is the only way to gain at least the illusion of immortality.
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You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him.
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Everybody's born with some different thing at the core of their existence. And that thing, whatever it is, becomes like a heat source that runs each person from the inside. I have one too, of course. Like everybody else. But sometimes it gets out of hand. It swells or shrinks inside me, and it shakes me up. What I'd really like to do is find a way to communicate that feeling to another person.
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We have chaos reigning in the Middle East. There is a great deal of instability. In the past, people would have turned to their church, and some still do. Counterintuitively, people are now turning into themselves to find their roots. The way you do that is through your family tree. "Where did I come from?" There is an urge to preserve the names of the people who produced you.
