Henry Louis Gates Quotes
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Fashion isn't something you can buy; you need to have the sense of it, and most people don't.
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Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.
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I want to do that. That's my goal. I want to become a legend.
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Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.
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People are not happy with women in actual power, yet we seem to be happy to take women on as figureheads, objects, like queens. It's a powerful yet politically powerless role.
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It was important on The Shipping News to have my house far enough away from each location so I had this time in the morning to think about my shots and still remain open to surprises once I got to the set.
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Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.
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God is my homeboy. Jesus is my homeboy.
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Let me rejoice in the light which Thou hast imparted; let me serve Thee with active zeal, humbled confidence, and wait with patient expectation for the time in which the soul which Thou receivest shall be satisfied with knowledge.
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'There’s nothing to fear, Lebannen,' he said gently, mockingly. 'They were only the dead.'
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Statesmen remember things selectively.
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Nobody asked for life to deal us with these bullshit hands we´re dealt. We gotta take these cards ourselves and flip ém, don´t expect no help!
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Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.
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Time wounds all heels.
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One thing I have clear is that I don't want to work for money anymore.
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I call it like I see it. I don't hold back when it comes to being candid on the hot issues.
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We're half an hour from Toronto, which offers everything you could want from a city, and a couple of hours from beautiful vacation country. We have it all here, plus George W. Bush is not our president.
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My idea of going to hell is going somewhere where there are no books.
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I'm half an hour late, I'll come back tomorrow.
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The experience of watching great cinema - great art - is life enriching and spiritually uplifting no matter whether it's about as difficult as it gets, like 'Breaking the Waves,' or as light as it gets, like 'Jerry Maguire,' 'Election' or 'Toy Story.'
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We did the original 'Stargate' as an independent movie. It was a surprise success. Shortly before the movie came out, the financiers who were frightened the movie might not do well sold the film to MGM. When the film came out, it was a hit and spawned TV shows.
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We need a greening of globalisation.
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The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that.
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There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees.
