Henry Louis Gates Quotes
You have a diasporic black world, and the only way to put it back together again is symbolic. It's like Humpty Dumpty. Whoever could edit the 'Encyclopedia Africana' would provide symbolic order to the fragments created over the past 500 years. That is a major contribution.
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I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.
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The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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Stories are the common ground that allow people to connect, despite all our defences and all our differences.
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We are a breathtakingly alienated people... One of my props is the world's largest underpants. I've had the president of Costa Rica in my underpants with me.
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My relationship with my body has changed. I used to consider it as a servant who should obey, function, give pleasure. In sickness, you realise that you are not the boss. It is the other way around.
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It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich.
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The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
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To the man with an ear for verbal delicacies - the man who searches painfully for the perfect word, and puts the way of saying a thing above the thing said - there is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.
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For the sword outwears its sheath,And the soul wears out the breast,And the heart must pause to breathe,And love itself have rest.
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I am after ME his response on the question what he was after, in his sober painting in 1963 'Sun in an empty room'.
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I take photos, I used to make films, I journal incessantly, and I really value the documentation of life. Because it's almost like you are making something special by wanting to make it exist in an object - on paper or even just in the computer - making these recordings, making this music.
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I don't have the attention span for sports.
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Big banks have long had private equity divisions that put up capital for deals too complex or risky for individual shareholders to finance.
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Social media can help or hurt you. People are more into other people's lives than their own. Everyone sees everyone else's success online, and we allow it to magnify our own failure.
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Computer modelling for weather forecasting, and indeed for climate forecasting, has reached its limits.
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I see myself a humble man, and I tell you I have no ambitions to be president.
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I don't just want to be the best black player or the best Asian player. I want to be the best golfer ever.
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The first piano was built long after they didn't have any at all.
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Everyday create your history, every path you take you're leaving your legacy.
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You have a diasporic black world, and the only way to put it back together again is symbolic. It's like Humpty Dumpty. Whoever could edit the 'Encyclopedia Africana' would provide symbolic order to the fragments created over the past 500 years. That is a major contribution.
