Henry Louis Gates Quotes

For me, a garden is peace of mind. It immediately takes my mind off the thing I'm puzzling about in my work and gives me repose.

Henry Louis Gates

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• I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.

  

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• I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.

  

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• I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.

  

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• We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.

  

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• Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion.

  

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• Ricky Martin is one of my idols in the industry.

  

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• If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

  

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• I can be quite surprised by what makes me cry, but it's usually spiritual things.

  

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• And at 19, you think you rule the world, and you can control things. And a lot of times, you don't.

  

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• The cause of war is preparation for war.

  

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• The best way to teach somebody something is to have them think they're learning something else. I’ve done it my whole career. And the head fake here is that they’re learning to program but they just think they’re making movies and video games.

  

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• Is it possible to live in this world without the operation of will?

  

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• Pero la vida es corta:viviendo, todo falta;muriendo, todo sobra.

  

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• John Howard's credibility on the entire Iraq war has been torpedoed by John Howard's own intelligence agency.

  

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• I have the utmost respect for those who have come to this country legally and have contributed to the great melting pot that is America today. But those who have crossed our borders illegally have broken the law and the law ought to be enforced.

  

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• On YouTube, when you have a big viral success with a song that isn't your own, the natural inclination for most YouTubers is to keep doing that. What you really should do is show people that you actually have substance and can write your own music.

  

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• For me, in a world full of armies of stylists and makeup artists, what I think truly makes a fashion icon is how a girl dresses when she's off duty and she has to put her own looks together - no small challenge!

  

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• I listen to myself, I listen to my body, my mind; I follow my heart.

  

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• I'll give President Obama credit that he's dealing with big issues. I've seen administrations come to town and only deal with the little ones. You know, he's confronting a lot of major concerns here, and he's the only president we're going to have for the next four years, so we hope he's got some degree of success.

  

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• A society committed to the search for truth must give protection to, and set a high value upon, the independent and original mind, however angular, however rasping, however socially unpleasant it may be; for it is upon such minds, in large measure, that the effective search for truth depends.

  

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• For me, a garden is peace of mind. It immediately takes my mind off the thing I'm puzzling about in my work and gives me repose.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Mind
  • Giving
  • Garden