Henry Louis Gates Quotes
Lincoln would love the fact that Obama is such a great conciliator, trying to transcend ideology.
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But we must create in each person a sense of responsibility in order that each one of us can have the right to enjoy all his rights.
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A newspaperman said, 'You have to have a team in New York.' I replied, 'Who says you have to have a team in New York?' What came out in the papers was a headline that said, Giles Says, 'Who needs New York?' I confess that quote bothered me, and there seemed to be no way to dispose of it. It was repeated again and again.
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Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
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I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not.
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If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words.
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I think if you're against cruelty and you look at what happens to animals in slaughterhouses and on factory farms, you have to be completely against eating meat.
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If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch.
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My real name is Joe Kennedy, but if you live in Massachusetts, you can't sign 'Joe Kennedy.' So, back in 1957, I stuck the X on my name to be different from those people in Hyannis Port.
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We were raised very colour blind. I had gone to school and to camp for so long with white people, I think I was like 15 years old before I realised I was black.
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I don’t particularly remember sitting at home crying and eating endless packets of HobNobs. I don’t remember doing that at all. Honestly, I think it was a stress thing or something. I don’t know.
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There's just so much craziness out there in the world; it's like I couldn't fit them all in my books.
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It's very hard having a career in different continents and two different languages.
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Iraq is not occupied, but there are foreign forces on its soil, which is different.
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As I have said before, our society cannot be truly prosperous until it respects the rights of the most vulnerable among us.
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My mother had a wall of degrees in our house, and she would walk me up to the wall and say, 'When you have this many degrees, you can tell me what to do.'
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One of the most talented, smartest people happens to be my wife, so I can get great advice from her. She obviously knows me incredibly well and what I'm going through. I don't know that I've been as helpful to her as she has been to me.
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As the world becomes a more digital place, we cannot forget about the human connection.
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I've worked with Tim Burton five times, and it's just like being part of a family; life doesn't get much better than that.
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The melody will tell me what the song should be about, the tone of the song. That's when the intellect comes in. Because I have a list of possible titles and concepts, and I expand on that.
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Western culture from the start has swerved from femaleness. The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again.
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Most kids have an innate feeling of the sense of God and spirit. But either we forget about it over time, or we're scared away from it.
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I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.
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To write a blues song is to regiment riots and pluck gems from graves.
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Lincoln would love the fact that Obama is such a great conciliator, trying to transcend ideology.
