Henry Louis Gates Quotes
The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.Henry Louis Gates
Quotes to Explore
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When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
Mahatma Gandhi -
If a division becomes insolvent, the credit markets' reaction to that is immediate - regardless of what period of time you think you have to remedy.
Walker Stapleton -
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Carl Jung -
The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world.
Mahmoud Abbas -
Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.
Maajid Nawaz -
I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.
Zadie Smith
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We have to honor our commitments to today's beneficiaries, but we can't solve the growing deficit and debt problems unless we are smart, courageous, and sensible in planning for future.
Nan Hayworth -
I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
Abraham Maslow -
I have a satellite radio show called 'The Legends of Reggae.' It's a cool way to branch out and do other things. I'm paying respect to the legends of reggae.
Ziggy Marley -
Let me just worry about me. I'm not worried about anyone else. If you're doing fine, great; if you're struggling, I hope things get better for you. But I've got to be worried about my career.
LaToya London -
The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of.
J. J. Abrams -
The Bush tax cuts, they ought to be made permanent in my mind so there is certainty out there.
Gary Herbert
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The less life in a person, the more he will try to live off your life.
Vernon Howard -
Ueberhaupt aber bin ich allmälig der Meinung geworden, daß der erwähnte Nutzen der Kathederphilosophie von dem Nachtheil überwogen werde, den die Philosophie als Profession der Philosophie als freier Wahrheitsforschung, oder die Philosophie im Auftrage der Regierung der Philosophie im Auftrage der Natur und der Menschheit bringt.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
We've managed to have a long career that is still quite vibrant, yet we've never had to kow-tow to record companies who said we weren't commercial enough.
Alex Lifeson Rush -
At the end of the day, you have to look at, 'Are they knowledgeable? Are they doing their job?' Not what their appearance is.
Colin Kaepernick -
The first role I played was Madame Ranevsky in 'The Cherry Orchard.'
Lesley Nicol -
I'm a filmmaker who decided to go to culinary school. All I picked up was the fact if I didn't understand what was going on with every single ingredient, I could be qualifying for, like, the lunch food job at my daughter's school.
Alton Brown
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It's funny; in fashion, you can never relax and feel like it's all sorted. Every season, you have to give yourself a challenge and come up with something new and fresh.
Jenny Packham -
'Being green' is commendable, but I hope that people don't take too much pride and self-adoration because they shut off the water when they brushed their teeth. The truth of the matter is, conservation alone will do little to save our planet.
Naveen Jain -
Ambition aspires to descend.
Pierre Corneille -
Well might the ancients make silence a god; for it is the element of all godhood, infinitude, or transcendental greatness,--at once the source and the ocean wherein all such begins and ends.
Thomas Carlyle -
I think what history has done to Jewish people, frankly, cannot be made good by giving them a piece of land.
Daniel Barenboim -
The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.
Henry Louis Gates