Henry Louis Gates Quotes
Insofar as we, critics of the black tradition, master our craft, we serve both to preserve our own traditions and to shape their direction. All great writers demand great critics.Henry Louis Gates
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Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.
Jack Keane -
We talk a lot about hope, helping, and teamwork. Our whole message is that we are more powerful together.
Victoria Osteen -
I think the world looks down on Republicans for their socially conservative views, which includes religion in government.
Gary Johnson -
I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
Naomi Campbell -
And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
Larry David -
I remember, around age three, peas growing in the back garden. Pinching them from their pods and popping them in the mouth was my first realisation that food came from somewhere other than a shelf.
Caitlin Moran
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Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.
J. G. Ballard -
The truth is, I'm not body confident.
Tamsin Egerton -
But it kills me, this fascination with celebrities' personal lives.
Calista Flockhart -
A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
I have osteoarthritis, which especially affects my knees.
Malcolm Boyd -
India may be the only country in the world that has been free of anti-Semitic prejudice throughout its history.
Gary Weiss
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The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.
Samuel Gompers -
If only the people around you know you're an artist, then you're doing something wrong.
Fetty Wap -
I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.
J. D. Salinger -
Show me the man who would go to heaven alone if he could, and I will show you one who will never be admitted there.
Owen Feltham -
While trade agreements are negotiated in secrecy, behind-closed doors, we have learned enough from leaks to know that the result of passing TPA to 'fast track' these trade agreements would affect everything from food safety to environmental protection to consumer financial protections.
Jan Schakowsky -
To succeed [,] consider what is as though it were past, deem yourself inevitable and take credit for it. If you no longer believe, enlarge the temple.
W. S. Merwin
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A straight dark-green Manchu gown, with black trimmings, is my favorite. For it just about takes off those fifteen pounds I don't need and adds those three inches I do.
Buwei Yang Chao -
Insofar as we, critics of the black tradition, master our craft, we serve both to preserve our own traditions and to shape their direction. All great writers demand great critics.
Henry Louis Gates