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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Ninety percent of hockey is mental and the other half is physical.
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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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Only utopian liberals could be surprised that the Nazis were art connoisseurs.
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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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The evil that machinery is doing is not merely in the consequence of its work but in the fact that it makes men themselves machines also.
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I really love Alexa Chung's style. I really think she gets it right all the time. I've never seen a picture of her where I didn't love the outfit.
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I wouldn't take on the project unless I could have complete creative control in casting.
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Why do women go out with jerks? Because jerks ask.
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Because I had a lot of emotional upheaval in my life, I'm attracted to stories about characters whose lives are full of wounds and secrets. I'm not interested in who's going to ask me to the prom. I never went to a prom.
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There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees.
