Henry Louis Gates Quotes
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The most important practical lesson that can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe - how to observe - what symptoms indicate improvement - what the reverse - which are of importance - which are of none - which are the evidence of neglect - and of what kind of neglect.
Florence Nightingale
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I'm interested in all forms of performance, yet I think it's difficult to be as equally talented in all of them as they call for such different skills. At the moment, I still feel I'm learning and want as much experience and variety as possible.
Felicity Jones
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It's always hard, after you've been in command, to take a lesser role.
Walter Cronkite
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After being rejected for years, I found a publisher for 'Keeper,' and it won prizes, and then I had to write a second and a third book because I kept taking the money and spending it.
Mal Peet
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All the time I was playing the flute, the lines, the solos, the riffs, the construction, were based on my guitar skills. I did not play the flute to exploit its natural faculties, but I used it as a surrogate guitar.
Ian Anderson
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Freedom of expression is not absolute. Countries have laws that define the framework for exercising this right and which, for instance, condemn racist language.
Tariq Ramadan
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My message to the Americans, to the American President, is that I am coming from Poland, which is in good shape; it is much different than ten years ago when last state visit from Poland was here in the United States.
Aleksander Kwasniewski
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A lot of our leadership has become acutely aware of speaking more fairly, of speaking more balanced, of recognizing that hate speech in any form, even if it comes out of emotional anger, is dangerous.
Hamza Yusuf
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I was always being told off at school. The teachers would say: 'Everyone's talking, but you're the one I can hear.'
Mary Beth Patterson
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Oh, Mr Coward, sir - I could never have an affair with you, because you remind me of my father!
Kenneth More
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China was the worst place I've ever been in my life.
J. R. Smith
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I didn't feel particularly close to my father.
Henry Louis Gates
