Henry Louis Gates Quotes

I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.

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• When it comes right down to it, whatever business you're in, you're in the people business. After all, people prefer to do business with people and companies they find likeable.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • People
  • Business
  • Down

• I think there are a very few pro-lifers who would say that a zygote in a petri dish is the equivalent of you or me; it's just younger. If you can say that without laughing, maybe you are a true pro-lifer. But I think most people are able or willing to make distinctions that show they maybe don't quite believe that.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • People
  • Believe
  • True

• When you start talking about sacrifices, pretty soon people start feeling like chumps.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Feeling

• I've never owned an Apple product. I like the fact that PCs are open architecture and not locked down like Apple products. I feel that Macs are also unjustifiably overpriced.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Architecture
  • Down
  • Apple

• I use Aveeno cleansers and moisturizers.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Use

• Indian weddings are elaborate. As a culture, we like to celebrate everything... Our weddings go on for sometimes a week, 10 days.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Culture
  • Week
  • Celebrate

• I would say that the woman's ability to multi-task and to be maternal in instinct, it fosters a different approach to the character that makes sense as an actor.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Different
  • Character
  • Woman

• Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators have a constitutional duty to advise and consent to the appointment of all Cabinet officials. They should take that duty seriously.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Take
  • Seriously
  • Consent

• Only get rid altogether of your nonsensical trash about the beautiful, which I nor anybody else, nor yourself to boot, could ever understand,-only free yourself of that, and your success in life is as sure as daylight.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Life
  • Success
  • Beautiful

• uses (Kyle) as an inspiration. He says when he thinks about Kyle, 'I haven't got any problems.' Kyle is an inspiration to people, but he may not know it.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Inspiration
  • Menstrual problems

• Christianity, like most religions, works with fear. Sins can be confessed and you are 'Clean again' and can start to sin again without thinking about your old sins. We believe that people should ask themselves why they sinned. They should show some responsibility.

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • People
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• As long as I can get angry then I play well. If I play well I can beat everybody. I am happy because I am getting angry.

  

  Ilie Nastase
  • Long
  • Happy
  • Angry

• Once you achieve one goal, you should be looking forward to trying to build onto the next thing, and not just getting comfortable with what you're doing.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Trying
  • Goal
  • Achieve

• I'm kind of horny, conventional methods of making love kind of bore me.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Kind
  • Method
  • Bores

• It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Moral
  • Eye
  • Beauty

• Why should I trade one tyrant three thousand miles away for three thousand tyrants one mile away?

  

  Benjamin Martin
  • Trade
  • Tyrant

• Know how to live with the time that is given you.

  

  Nora Raleigh Baskin
  • Time
  • Live
  • Given

• The opinion of the majority was in his view not what mattered; rather, it was the opinion of the wise, those guided by reason, that counted. When put on trial by a jury of 500 of his fellow citizens for purportedly denying the gods of the city and replacing them with new ones, and in general corrupting the youth – the real motive may have been his associations with certain anti-democratic political figures of the day – he defended himself, Plato tells us, by claiming that he was divinely called to lead others to the improvement of their souls. Naturally, this democratic assembly had him executed.

  

  Edward Feser
  • Reason
  • Opinion
  • Citizens

• The most urgent reason for prohibition is the good of these depressed classes. No other single measure of reform can help these people, and at once raise them economically and socially as total prohibition can. The rich and the educated may be indifferent about this reform. It is most necessary for saving the poor and the lowly.

  

  C. Rajagopalachari
  • Reform
  • Raise
  • Prohibition

• I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Prison
  • Figures
  • Reform