Henry Louis Gates Quotes
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I was in San Francisco for 'Trauma' and then got back to town and got situated and started looking at things and passing on things. I think I was around for a month and a half, and there were other projects that were up, but it's all a waiting game. And then, 'The Vampire Diaries' came up, and I was really interested and read for it.
Taylor Kinney
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
R. W. Apple, Jr.
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We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.
Ike Barinholtz
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If you have passion, there is no need for excuses because your enthusiasm will trump any negative reasoning you might come up with. Enthusiasm makes excuses a nonissue.
Wayne Dyer
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Singing, for me, means singing as loud as I can.
Walter Becker
Steely Dan
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I've been very lucky.
Daniel Craig
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
Malcolm McDowell
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With kiting, you have to land a trick, and in that instant you know whether you won or lost - I knew I could become the best in the world if I trained. But with acting, there are different variations; there's not a right or wrong way. It's so hard because it's so out of your hands. I have no idea what's going to happen!
Maika Monroe
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And as an American colleague said to me several months ago, he said, 'I think the challenge in Jordan - and, again, this is for the rest of the Middle East - we need to define what center is. And once we can define what center is to a Jordanian, then we can decide what's left and what's right of that.
Abdullah II of Jordan
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There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.
Harri Holkeri
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Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
Pat Paulsen
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Internet governance is an oxymoron. The Internet must govern itself. But you can't play cricket without any rules.
Kapil Sibal
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The just man is not the product of a day, but of a long brooding and a painful birth. To become a power for peace, a man must first pass through experiences which lead him to see things in their different aspects: it is necessary that he have a wide horizon, and breathe various atmospheres--in a word, from crossing, one after another, paths and points of view the most diverse, and sometimes the most contradictory, he must acquire the faculty of putting himself in the place of others and appreciating them.
Charles Wagner
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I love old-fashioned manners, as long as it's not forced. I can tell when it's natural or when someone is just trying to impress me.
Adriana Lima
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For me to be with someone, he's got to be fit. Or at least doing something he loves. Following your passion - whether it's hiking or sports or whatever - is super sexy.
Kaley Cuoco
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My father was gone when I was three years old.
Marc Wallice
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The idea of feminine authority is so deeply embedded in the human subconscious that even after all these centuries of father-right the young child instinctively regards the mother as the supreme authority. He looks upon the father as equal with himself, equally subject to the woman's rule. Children have to be taught to love, honor, and respect the father, a task usually assumed by the mother.
Elizabeth Gould Davis
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My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black.
Henry Louis Gates
