Henry Louis Gates Quotes
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.
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Women dress very much according to their moods, so when you see their shoes, it really shows you the character and what they want to show to the world, and what they are feeling at that time.
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.
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Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.
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I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.
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What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.
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The presidential candidates are offering prescriptions for everything from Iraq to healthcare, but listen closely. Their fixes are situational and incremental. Meanwhile, the underlying structural problems in American politics and government are systemic and prevent us from solving our most intractable challenges.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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I'm not going to be lectured by Nathan Deal, who is a former Clinton Democrat. I will stack up my conservative credentials against his any day of the week.
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If I manage to leave my bedroom and get to the gym, that makes me feel good about myself! For me, the most difficult part is getting out of bed, but once I'm out, I really enjoy playing sports.
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As David Cameron realizes, we do not have time for the tweaks and increments favored by institutions built to resist change.
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Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
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Religion has convinced us that there's something else entirely other than concerns about suffering. There's concerns about what God wants, there's concerns about what's going to happen in the afterlife.
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I had a very long home birth. She was almost 10 pounds and did not want to come out.
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It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.
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Gold all is not that doth golden seem.
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It was good for us, I suppose. Those kinds of times produce qualities in us that make us better for having had them. My parents were not getting along. My mother was quite intolerant of friendships that were being developed.
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You know, I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand.
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When a president speaks, it's to multiple audiences.
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I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.
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Guys just don't care. We don't take the time to plan behind each other's back. We just say, If you don't like me, screw you'. If a guy doesn't like you, you know because you have a black eye.
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One must learn how to be black in America.
