Henry Louis Gates Quotes
In fact, the class divide in the black community is now seen by some as a permanent aspect of our existence.
Henry Louis Gates
Quotes to Explore
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To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.
Hannes Alfven
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Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.
H. L. Mencken
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It's the irrational things that interest me.
Harrison Birtwistle
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The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.
Abraham Lincoln
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When we don't have all the details about our characters, we have to make it up to fill in all the details. So, for me, writing and acting go hand in hand.
Octavia Spencer
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I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way.
Victoria Beckham
Spice Girls
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I lead a simple life. I feed the fish. I walk the dogs. I cook dinner. Occasionally I take a meeting.
Macaulay Culkin
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I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.
Camille Paglia
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We all dream things into being; you imagine yourself having a child, and then you have a child. An inventor will think of something in his mind and then make it actual. So things are often passing from the imagined realm into the real world.
Salman Rushdie
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I tremble when I am reminded of the fact that I have to be in charge of this country and Parliament, which had been led by no less a person than Jawaharlal Nehru.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
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I love seafood. I'm not a vegetarian but I'm probably a pescetarian.
Padma Lakshmi
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Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.
Barbara Boxer
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The only international language in the world is a child's cry.
Eglantyne Jebb
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There are three kinds of fools in this world, fools proper, educated fools and rich fools. The world persists because of the folly of these fools.
Narayanananda Swami
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Community means engaging constructively with like-minded nations to build strong, sustaining institutions and alliances - and bringing emerging powers into this community so future conflict becomes less likely.
Joe Lieberman
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When AIDS hit, lots of people banded together to take care of each other and do what the government wasn't doing. When you grow up Jewish, as I have, you learn that everybody hates you, no one's going to help you, and you have to take care of yourself. That's a great maxim to the gay community, and we took it to heart; we took care of our own.
Bruce Vilanch
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In fact, the class divide in the black community is now seen by some as a permanent aspect of our existence.
Henry Louis Gates
