Henry Louis Gates Quotes
What's fascinated me from the time I was a little kid was the way we construct our lives through stories.
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Even if you live in a big city, everybody lives in a small town. We identify ourselves by our neighborhoods - 'I live in the Village, or in Chelsea.'
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Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
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I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.
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I want to give kids that fall-off-the-bed-laughing feeling. Either that, or the sixth-grade feeling that life is hard - sometimes unbearably hard - and it is ultimately about death. But in the meantime, life can be really funny, too.
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If there's a rift in the marriage - if someone feels neglected, frustrated, tempted by others, or unsure - then trouble can easily arise.
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Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.
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If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.
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China and Russia are regarded as the most formidable cyber threats.
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I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972.
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I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.
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A lot of broadcasting, I think, is doing a tremendous amount of preparation and trying to act like, 'Oh, this thought is just occurring to me right now' - and speaking sincerely.
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I do spend a lot of weekends on the road. I have to pace myself. It can be pretty busy, but I'm not out in the Afghan desert with 70 pounds on my back, away from my family for a year at a time. I keep a good perspective on it.
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I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news.
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It's fun to improvise, but I still think it's better to have a great script, you know, like a Charlie Kaufman script.
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We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas.
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I think it's wrong the way they criminalize herb. There are many more uses than just smoking. Beneficial to mankind.
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To love in any way is to be like a child—it means to be vulnerable, to be wide-eyed, to be selfless. There is no such thing as free love; love is the most costly expression in the world. To love romantically is to give of oneself fully and completely, a merging and meshing of souls so that the twain become a unity. It is to allow the sense of wonder to fully enrapture.
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The outsider may indeed wonder at this seeming much ado about nothing. What a tempest in a tea-cup! he will say. But when we consider how small after all the cup of human enjoyment is, how soon overflowed with tears, how easily drained to the dregs in our quenchless thirst for infinity, we shall not blame ourselves for making so much of the tea-cup.
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I'm definitely caught up in the Kool-Aid of true-crime stories.
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I want to make books. I want to take pictures and then write all over the pictures. And then I don't have to say a complete story, because I have the picture, and I have just a word.
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What cooler way to grow up for an American boy than to be around cars and football?
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My fear represented the failure of the human system. It is a sad truth of our creation: Something is amiss in our design, there are loose ends of our psychology that are simply not wrapped up. My fears were the dirty secrets of evolution. They were not provided for, and I was forced to construct elaborate temples to house them.
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What's fascinated me from the time I was a little kid was the way we construct our lives through stories.
