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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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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I may not be the most physically tough player, but I think mentally I'm right up there.
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One does not study for a goal. One sings because one can't help it! The 'goal' nine times out of ten is a mere accident.
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Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.
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We're not just going to take some songs from a focus group in Nashville where people are sitting around in a circle having appointments trying to write catchy songs so they can sell them to a band like us.
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The character we've always thought of as the Wicked Witch of the West is a green girl who's actually very good, misunderstood, and trying to make her way in the world. She's an outsider looking in, wanting to be loved. That's a universal experience that everyone's felt at some point in their lives.
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Lincoln would love the fact that Obama is such a great conciliator, trying to transcend ideology.
