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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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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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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Twice, adv. Once too often.
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The life of a revolutionary would be quite impossible without a certain amount of 'fatalism.'
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I live the life of a farmer. I don't see how I could wear Lagerfeld's designs while feeding my goats. I have respect for Lagerfeld as a man, but I would have so much more for him if he, in turn, respected animals. We do not live in the same world.
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People aren't taking their time with the music no more. There's less quality in the records.
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I rarely draw myself, in general, and if I do, I tend to do little cute manga-esque, almost bite-sized drawings of myself.
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A lot of things are going right. More is going right than wrong, for sure.
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Future historians trying to determine what it was like to be alive in fin de millennium America should read the last two decades of O. Henry and Best American short-story collections.
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Part of the reason why so many actors lose the plot when they go over to America is that they become part of an industry, so that's why they don't want to play weak, bad or vulnerable guys - because that's not sellable; that diminishes their profit margin.
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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.
