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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Human beings are just way more complex than they'd like to be. They like to be simple machines. And they'll set up fantasy scenarios where they're simple machines, and get hurt and do things they regret.
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I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.
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I want to be a pretty corpse.
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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Great teachers are usually a little crazy.
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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.
