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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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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I had a very long home birth. She was almost 10 pounds and did not want to come out.
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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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An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
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On a big film, there's almost no way you can meet everyone. On an indie, there are 30 people and no trailers to duck into.
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You want to feel that your reader does identify with the characters so that there's a real entry into the story - that some quality speaks to the individual.
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Usually when there are a lot of layoffs, like in 2008 and 2009, business creation tends to spike. But that didn't happen right away, partly because people trying to start a business couldn't get credit.
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Being in a band you can wear whatever you want - it's like an excuse for Halloween every day.
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I am a historian. With the exception of being a wife and mother, it is who I am. And there is nothing I take more seriously.
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Ever since Israel has been a nation the United States has provided the leadership. Every president down to the ages has done this in a fairly balanced way, including George Bush senior, Gerald Ford, and others including myself and Bill Clinton.
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One must learn how to be black in America.
