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.
Carine Roitfeld -
Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.
Taylor Momsen -
I want to do that. That's my goal. I want to become a legend.
Rafael dos Anjos -
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.
Gavin Newsom -
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.
Kate Williams -
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.
Lasse Hallstrom
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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.
P. J. O'Rourke -
God is my homeboy. Jesus is my homeboy.
Queen Latifah -
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.
Samuel Johnson -
'There’s nothing to fear, Lebannen,' he said gently, mockingly. 'They were only the dead.'
Ursula K. Le Guin -
Statesmen remember things selectively.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.
Desmond Tutu
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One thing I have clear is that I don't want to work for money anymore.
Antonio Banderas -
I call it like I see it. I don't hold back when it comes to being candid on the hot issues.
Jerry Doyle -
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.
Linwood Barclay -
My idea of going to hell is going somewhere where there are no books.
James MacArthur -
You need to see what the actor needs. This one wants to be talked to privately. That one doesn't mind if you block it for them. Just tell me the truth and I'll adapt to it.
Penny Marshall -
At the start of the season, there are 16 teams in the top division looking behind them, making sure they avoid relegation. The fear starts in the boardroom, comes down to managers and through to players. The fans sense it.
George Best
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If I fall, I fall. I'll rise up like anybody else.
Ben Harper -
I think if you're everyone's cup of tea, that probably means you're a little bit boring, or you're not pushing yourself. Creativity happens where it's dangerous and scary: where you're not comfortable.
Kacey Musgraves -
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
Quintilian -
If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.
Jack Canfield -
There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees.
Henry Louis Gates