Henry Louis Gates Quotes
A more humane form of capitalism is about the best I think we can get. Which might sound very reformist or conservative, but that's basically where I am.
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To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child.
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I'm Australian! How much more alpha can you get?
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I need to be more consistent about taking care of myself no matter how busy I am.
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If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem.
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As to which is cuter, a puppy or a baby, I'm going to say that probably depends less on the particular puppy and more on the baby. I've seen pictures of me as an infant and consider myself lucky that nobody ever offered my parents the opportunity to trade me for a beagle.
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I mean the terrorists are - are like a pimple, like a boil. They'll go away.
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I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.
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Nothing is taken lightly in 'The Hunger Games.'
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Readers are very, very savvy, and I don't want to insult them by making them think I'm too lazy to get it right.
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It was my dream, and probably the dream of every one of us, to bring about a revision of the Versailles Treaty by peaceful means, which was provided for in that very treaty.
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Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business.
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If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let's take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky.
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There was a lot of Southern Baptist preachers and some yelling ones but mostly we had a pastor who didn't scream and I found a lot of comfort and joy and peace as a child hearing the Bible.
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She is still less civilized than man, largely because she has not been educated.
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I'm definitely caught up in the Kool-Aid of true-crime stories.
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We need a new British business bank with a clean balance sheet and an ability to expand lending rapidly to the manufacturers, exporters and high-growth companies that power our economy. Today I can announce we will have one.
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People need to know, before I'm associated with any party, I am an American, and that's what I want to drive home at the RNC.
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What better way to expand your imagination than to read!
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The pyramids are one of those things that live up to the hype. They're elemental in ways that are hard to describe.
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Traitors hoist by their own petard?--or victims of the gods?--we shall never know!
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Step out of your comfort zone to get a feel for how things are done differently. Don’t take the easy way out with songwriting. Be very patient with yourself and others.
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The power given by the Constitution to the Executive to interpose his veto is a high conservative power; but in my opinion it should never be exercised except in cases of clear violation of the Constitution, or manifest haste and want of due consideration by Congress.
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I've grown up on a diet of metaphors. If young writers would find those writers who can give them metaphors by the bushel and the peck, then they'll become better writers - to learn how to capsualize things and present them in metaphorical form.
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A more humane form of capitalism is about the best I think we can get. Which might sound very reformist or conservative, but that's basically where I am.
