Henry Louis Gates Quotes
The first step toward tolerance is respect and the first step toward respect is knowledge.
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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.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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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.
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I'm really tired of virtue.
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How do you take what you do as seriously as possible but not so seriously that it ends up inhibiting what you do?
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There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified, and new prejudices to be opposed.
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Every generation finds the drug it needs.
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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.
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We cannot let the bogeyman of al-Qaida and extremism be used to stall historic change in our country
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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.
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There are no habits of man more alien to the doctrine of the Communist than those of the collector
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I used to play drums when I was a kid, play the trombone.
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I loved playing Anne Bancroft, because she was so wonderfully arch.
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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.
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You're only as good as the sum of your parts, and one person can't be a team.
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If I were to look in you ferigerator....refridgefreetorator...fridge....what would I find?
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I'm just happy I got a hole-in-one for the first time in my life.
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I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people.
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Start with a picture of your goal as already achieved in the future, and work back to the present. Imagine the steps that you would have taken to get from where you are now to where you want to be.
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The first step toward tolerance is respect and the first step toward respect is knowledge.
