Henry Louis Gates Quotes

The first step toward tolerance is respect and the first step toward respect is knowledge.

Henry Louis Gates

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• The whole Hollywood thing where people want to put me into this 'quirky-fashionista, daughter of' category makes me mad because it's promoting something that I don't believe in, and it's not who I am.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Hollywood
  • Promoting
  • Fashionista

• Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Life
  • Free
  • Simplicity

• What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Real
  • Artist
  • Prestige

• I don't think I've ever met any single person who has been vulgar. But you know, you learn along the way that some people are going to be very generous, and other people... It's just not innate within them. Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • People
  • Up
  • Single

• I'm really tired of virtue.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Tired
  • Virtue
  • Really

• How do you take what you do as seriously as possible but not so seriously that it ends up inhibiting what you do?

  

  Adam Driver
  • Up
  • You
  • Possible

• There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified, and new prejudices to be opposed.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Age

• Every generation finds the drug it needs.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Drug

• An excess of boringness does not make a thing interesting except in the driest academic sense. A place is not boring if you have to look really hard for something which is interesting. If there is absolutely nothing interesting about any particular place, then that is a perfectly interesting and quintessentially un-boring place.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Interesting

• For those of you who tried, but didn't make it, Settle down - it's never what you think. The summit doesn't differ from the deep, dark valley, And the valley doesn't differ from the kitchen sink.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Dark
  • Deep
  • Kitchen

• We cannot let the bogeyman of al-Qaida and extremism be used to stall historic change in our country

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Country

• You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the effort of men who are better than you. If this be arrogance, as some of your critics observed, it is still the truth that had to said in the age of the Welfare State.

  

  Ludwig von Mises
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Age

• There are no habits of man more alien to the doctrine of the Communist than those of the collector

  

  Augustine Birrell
  • Alien

• It's things like Wikipedia that help us to advance as a society and help us to accelerate our evolution. If you're a researcher and you need some answer to something, and in today's world you can find it this quickly, it allows you to develop whatever you are doing much faster.

  

  Kim Dotcom
  • World
  • Help
  • Today

• We know in our hearts that technology at its best should make us feel even more human than we currently feel. Sometimes it makes us feel less human.

  

  Astro Teller
  • Technology

• We're fortunate in my family because we really have three families: my brother, David, and me; the two boys, Cooper and Marston, from my dad's second marriage; and my dad's wife, Crystal.

  

  Christie Hefner
  • Family
  • Dad
  • Wife

• In 1982, when I was almost 26 years old, I decided I wanted to write fiction. I'd majored in journalism in college, and I'd always assumed I would write nonfiction.

  

  Cynthia Kadohata
  • College

• I used to play drums when I was a kid, play the trombone.

  

  Dolph Lundgren

• I loved playing Anne Bancroft, because she was so wonderfully arch.

  

  Marcia Gay Harden
  • She

• I usually look at things like that from an audience perspective first, then have a closer look at the specific character they're talking about me for.

  

  Colm Meaney
  • Character
  • Perspective

• The brave deserve the lovely - every woman may be won.

  

  Charles Godfrey Leland
  • May
  • Brave

• Of course there are dozens of meditation techniques, but it all comes down to this - just let it all be. Step over here where it is cool, out of the battle. Why not give it a try?

  

  Ajahn Chah
  • Trying
  • Battle
  • Meditation

• The first step toward tolerance is respect and the first step toward respect is knowledge.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Tolerance
  • Steps