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 didn't really enjoy school in general.
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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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Every adverse development across the world affects the rest of the world in some way.
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There's always so much more that can be conveyed on screen visually in the expressions of people's faces, in their bodies, in their body language. And also with sound design, with music.
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I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.
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Birds fly Over The Rainbow. Why then, oh why can't I? If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I?
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Motown was about music for all people - white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to have our music alienate anyone.
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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.
