Henry Louis Gates Quotes
I want to get into the educational DNA of American culture. I want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less, to be black.
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I'm very heterosexual, so dating women is something I'm not ashamed of. But my love life is not as exciting as it is reported to be.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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I get breakfast when everyone else is on their lunch break. I usually go to Dimes, which is a short walk from my apartment. Usually, I'll have chia pudding or an acai bowl and toast and sausage.
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I like to play poker. I have a nice poker group that's been going on for years.
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I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
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The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.
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When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave.
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I challenged things that needed to be challenged at Purdue.
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I went from a player who was never fit to a person who actually worked hard to get myself in shape.
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I will try to give my 100% in the field and do my job.
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The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'
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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.
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I really like 'The Three Kings' DVD. I love that movie and all the extra footage and documentaries.
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I've had good times and bad times. That's me. That's how I am.
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I always had acting work when I needed it. I think that is why, when I watch films or TV series in America, I find in small roles or in supporting roles really amazing faces, where I have the feeling these people have actually had a life outside of acting. I find it almost a pity that I've never done anything else.
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In my first book, Under Fire, I wrote that I revered Ronald Reagan. That was a dozen years ago. I still feel that way. I think he changed the world for the better for my children and my children's children.
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It certainly will be if you are still around.
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Though business conditions may change, corporations and securities may change, and financial institutions and regulations may change, human nature remains the same. Thus the important and difficult part of sound investment, which hinges upon the investor's own temperament and attitude, is not much affected by the passing years.
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I don't have a PR rep. I live in Vermont.
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I'm 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I'm not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip Hop Queen.
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It's nice to know there are some things in early 21st-century post-industrial culture that don't change very fast. I am one of those.
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I decided to become a teacher because I thought it would be a great career where I could wear different hats. You're an academic one moment, and you're a psychologist the next moment, an athlete the next moment... when you are out on the playground or coaching...so it enables you to play different roles.
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I want to get into the educational DNA of American culture. I want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less, to be black.
