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.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Live
  • Small
  • City

• Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Problem
  • Moral
  • Economic

• 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.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • History
  • Freedom
  • Beginning

• 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.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • World
  • Writing
  • Private

• 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.

  

  Kate Klise
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Death

• If there's a rift in the marriage - if someone feels neglected, frustrated, tempted by others, or unsure - then trouble can easily arise.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Marriage
  • Trouble
  • Others

• We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Black
  • Color
  • Censorship

• Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Reality

• 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.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • Job
  • Want

• China and Russia are regarded as the most formidable cyber threats.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Most
  • China
  • Cyber

• I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Look
  • Living
  • New York

• 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.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Family
  • Culture
  • Always

• 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.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Trying
  • Thought
  • Preparation

• 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.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Time
  • Good
  • Family

• I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Want
  • Serious
  • News

• It's fun to improvise, but I still think it's better to have a great script, you know, like a Charlie Kaufman script.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Great
  • Fun
  • Better

• We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Political
  • Energy
  • Balance

• How I love David Bowie.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Bowie

• I think it's wrong the way they criminalize herb. There are many more uses than just smoking. Beneficial to mankind.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Thinking
  • Mankind
  • Smoking

• It seemed to me that I had mastered words to the point of sweeping away forever the contradictions of being in the world, the surge of emotions, and breathless speech. In short, I now knew a method of speaking and writing that—by means of a refined vocabulary, stately and thoughtful pacing, a determined arrangement of arguments, and a formal orderliness that wasn’t supposed to fail—sought to annihilate the interlocutor to the point where he lost the will to object.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Words
  • Speech
  • Speaking

• Teach one girl how to code, she'll teach four. The replication effect is so powerful.

  

  Reshma Saujani
  • Powerful
  • Teach
  • Replication

• I distinctly remember watching Annie when I was very little and thinking 'I don't like this kid.' In fact I think I remember thinking 'I don't like any of these kids.' That's all I remember.

  

  Taika Waititi
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • Remember

• What's fascinated me from the time I was a little kid was the way we construct our lives through stories.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
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