Henry Louis Gates Quotes
Our society is driven today by so much ethnic discord. We have Black Lives Matter, which I praise and celebrate. We have the demagogues stereotyping Muslims and resurrecting racist stereotypes they used to visit on us. The larger goal is to show that we are all the same, we all come from Africa, and we all have the same larger family tree. It's about the fundamental unity of the human community.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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I am not an angry guy. It's just the roles I do that impact my personality.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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Most superhero characters we see these days are from foreign countries. I would like to play a superhero that shows off Korean power.
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I'm the best Twitterer.
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I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.
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Any kind of restrictions put on free speech would have worse consequences than bullying.
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Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people.
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That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.
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There would be no difficulty in securing the rights of the people and the liberties of Texas if men would march to their duty and not fly like recreants from danger. Texas must be defended and liberty maintained.
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I'm so proud of Maryland's firefighters, risking their lives to protect others, but we need to protect our protectors with the best equipment training and resources.
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Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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I had a very long home birth. She was almost 10 pounds and did not want to come out.
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After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin' at it.
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I challenged myself to carry on the style of guitar that my grandmother did: the Carter scratch.
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I'm not against wealth; I just think everybody should have it, same as health.
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Mortality is very brief but immeasurably important.
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Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.
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I like 'X Factor' as much as the next person, but I do get overwhelmed with the amount of reality TV. It's such cheap programming and such a load of rubbish, most of it.
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Today I would say, 'I am against plastic surgery.' It's a grave act. An act that touches our soul. It was frightening.
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The occupied territories and the movement of settlements - moving people today off of their property and claiming it - is illegal.
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Our society is driven today by so much ethnic discord. We have Black Lives Matter, which I praise and celebrate. We have the demagogues stereotyping Muslims and resurrecting racist stereotypes they used to visit on us. The larger goal is to show that we are all the same, we all come from Africa, and we all have the same larger family tree. It's about the fundamental unity of the human community.
