Henry Louis Gates Quotes
In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black. In Brazil, it's almost as if one drop of white ancestry makes you white.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
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I am what I am and I'm a horrible liar. I can't do it. I'm just very candid.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.
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I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.
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I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.
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I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.
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Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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The whole point of the kingdom of God is Jesus has come to bear witness to the true truth, which is nonviolent. When God wants to take charge of the world, he doesn't send in the tanks. He sends in the poor and the meek.
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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
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Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
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Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.
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Musical theatre is my first love.
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My dad was a firefighter for almost 30 years. My mom worked her way up from a secretary to vice president of her own company. They taught me to work hard for everything and take nothing for granted. That's how I play.
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My parents always say I have really good legs. I've worked really hard for them. They always insist that I show my legs.
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I am obsessed with John Mayer. I love him. I just think he's so talented. I have his documentary in my iTunes. I watch it all the time.
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An immense mausoleum of white marble, built in Agra between 1631 and 1648 by order of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his favourite wife, it is the jewel of Muslim art in India and one of the universally admired masterpieces of the world's heritage.
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'When will you stop this metaphysical nonsense?' said Edward wearily. 'But I suppose you’ve no other way to look at the matter, born as you were in an age of superstitious piety.'
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Criticism is properly the rod of divination: a hazel switch for the discovery of buried treasure, not a birch twig for the castigation of offenders.
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I think President Obama is trying to deceive the public in pretending that he was not a part of Congress that has made some decisions in the past that got us to where we are today.
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A change came o'er my Vision - it was night: We clove a pathway through a frantic throng: The steeds, wild-plunging, filled us with affright: The chariots whirled along.Within a marble hall a river ran - A living tide, half muslin and half cloth: And here one mourned a broken wreath or fan, Yet swallowed down her wrath
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Songs are like anything else - they dictate to you which ones go together and which ones don't.
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In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black. In Brazil, it's almost as if one drop of white ancestry makes you white.
