Henry Louis Gates Quotes
Ever since I watched 'Roots,' I've dreamed of tracing my African ancestry and helping other people do the same.
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Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking a lot, playing around, but superstar Jackie mode is me concentrating on making sure that this performance was going to be a great performance.
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For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who play on sessions.
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For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.
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Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.
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I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.
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In general, while Trump has been a master of Twitter, he has shown an aversion to, and ignorance of, technology itself.
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I'm very good friends with my former coaches. We speak on the phone a lot.
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A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it isn't the job of a libertarian presidential candidate to cook up new ways to commit theft.
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On occasion, I used to give presents to the kings, besides the hire that I gave to to their sons who accompany me; and nevertheless, they seized me with my companions.
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If I played tennis, I had to be in a dance class. I always had multiple activities, so I never had to count on any one of them to feel successful.
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My lips are big, but my talent is bigger.
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Greening the globalised manufacturing and sourcing will be the single biggest help multinationals could make to the tough pollution control in China and other developing countries.
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The West has been able to bring Afghanistan a much better health service, better education, better roads, a better economy, though some have benefited more; some have benefited less from that economic well-being in Afghanistan.
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All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Religion is a huge part of me; I'm a practicing Muslim. I'm pretty much open about it if people were to answer questions. At the end of the day, I'm just a normal girl. I have my own beliefs just like everyone else. I have a strong belief in something, but I also love music.
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What's the challenge in writing a novel that few people will read? I'm more than happy writing what I do and have no plans to change that.
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Misfortune is the best fortune. Rejection by all is victory.
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The struggle to make people understand the need for change is over.
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When I was a boy, I had a baseball team of my own. We played on a vacant lot between Ninetieth and Ninety-second streets. I had a little menagerie of my own, some pigeons, guinea pigs, and so on. On Saturday mornings, I had to take my music lesson. Then the members of my team used to come see my menagerie.
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Ever since I watched 'Roots,' I've dreamed of tracing my African ancestry and helping other people do the same.
