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.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
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.
-
Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.
-
I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
-
What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
-
I miss my horse. He's in Los Angeles.
-
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.
-
I think '80s pop music subconsciously informs what I'm doing.
-
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
-
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.
-
Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.
-
I'm a country girl at heart.
-
I was never a model-y model. I was doing it as a job, but people didn't even know I was a model.
-
We would be silly to say that race issues don't exist in 2014.
-
Everyone Instagrams all the people they are with. I get that it's part of the job. But there's a point where it's like, 'Can't you just be a person and have a separate life to your job?'
-
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
-
People get the impression that we approach football without method: that we're a bunch of skilled individualists. This just isn't so. I'm all for individuality. But I personally go through every tactical plan before every match.
-
Over the years of running Into The Gloss, I began to see a gap in the way beauty companies were creating products and marketing them to women. There wasn't one brand that really spoke to girls like me, who created products for real life. So we set out to create that brand with Glossier.
-
I only drive in movies. I know that's very weird to hear for an American. I have a weird relationship with it. I know how to drive, but I never went to take the test.
-
I have a call to speak, to write, to do sort of deep-heart surgery in people's lives.
-
I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.
-
Music is my work, writing songs is my work, touring is my work, going into the studio is my work.
-
A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.
-
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.
