Henry Louis Gates Quotes
The more you learn about yourself and your family tree, your self-esteem goes up. They will learn archival skills, historical analysis and science skills. You learn all this in the most seductive way, and that is through learning about yourself. Who doesn't like talking about themselves? It doesn't seem like science or history, it's just fun.
Henry Louis Gates
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
Adam Lambert
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.
Gavin Newsom
There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.
Ian Frazier
Hemingway's minimalism is based on the psychological mechanics of repression. An echo of his approach can be detected in a favorite trope of 1980s minimalists: a pattern of reference to dire secrets and hidden wounds these authors didn't realize they were supposed to have imagined.
Madison Smartt Bell
I used to work in kitchens, doing 12 or more hours a day of physical labor, so today, eight to 12 hours of cooking, chatting or filming feels like a vacation. When I have a scheduled 'day off,' I spend several hours writing, then I clean until I crash from fatigue. I don't relax well.
Rachael Ray
When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
Walter Scott
I always thought I looked kind of like Keith Richards, and sometimes I think I look like Michael Jackson in his mug shot. But as I think Keith Richards is pretty great-looking, I'm embracing that part of me.
Natalie Massenet
I've only been to jail once, and I didn't get my tattoos there.
Watkin Tudor Jones
When you're young, oddly enough, you're more afraid, more conservative about what it is you have.
Ed Weeks
I reside in a new colony for the Chinese-singing banjo player, with a population of one. At least I have something I have to do with my life.
Abigail Washburn
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
Oscar Wilde
Talking about covers, whether visually or sonically, if a particular combination of notes struck a chord in your heart in a way that you want to be a part of it by covering that song, then there's nothing wrong with it.
Ville Valo
HIM
If he can't do it with Ferrari, well, he can't do it.
John Surtees
Me personally, I like to wear as few artificially made products as possible. That stuff affects us, one way or another.
Gbenga Akinnagbe
I'm an R&B and Hip-Hop type guy. When I work out, which I do at least four or five times a week, I love to get the latest Hip-Hop because it really pumps me up and inspires me to get that workout on.
Morris Chestnut
Giving consumers the power to keep their phone numbers when they switch carriers has been great for consumers and businesses alike.
Ajit Pai
My first, my birth mother - her name is Queenie - she gave me a powerful medicine when I was a child. She told me that, "I was the best," and it helped me so much.
Erykah Badu
The more you learn about yourself and your family tree, your self-esteem goes up. They will learn archival skills, historical analysis and science skills. You learn all this in the most seductive way, and that is through learning about yourself. Who doesn't like talking about themselves? It doesn't seem like science or history, it's just fun.
Henry Louis Gates
