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.
Henry Louis Gates
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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
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Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.
Federica Montseny
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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.
Hannah Arendt
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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.
Umberto Eco
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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.
Kate Klise
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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.
Kate Christensen
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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.
Gary Sinise
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I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news.
Ted Turner
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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.
Sam Rockwell
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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.
Mac Thornberry
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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.
Ted Dekker
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If it was a choice between making movies and doing nothing, he'd probably still wish me to make movies, So he made me keep going.
Ang Lee
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The words and lives of Christian men must be in continual process of reformation by the written Word of their God. This means that ecclesiastical traditions and private theological speculations may never be identified with the word which God speaks, but are to be classed among the words of men which the Word of God must reform.
J. I. Packer
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Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Over your breasts of motionless current, over your legs of firmness and water, over the permanence and the pride of your naked hair I want to be, my love, now that the tears are thrown into the raucous baskets where they accumulate, I want to be, my love, alone with a syllable of mangled silver, alone with a tip of your breast of snow.
Pablo Neruda
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Organized religions have all the facets of organized crime, except the compassion of organized crime.
Malachy McCourt
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Doolittle looked just like a little toy soldier the first time I ever saw him.
Loretta Lynn
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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.
Henry Louis Gates
