Henry Louis Gates Quotes
We can see that the complexity we witness inside the African-American community today has always been there. Black people were just as noble and just as ignoble as anybody else.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
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All peoples have contributed to the overall progress and enhancement of human life.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my own book of experiences will best show what these obstacles are, and how I managed to overcome them to some extent.
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I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We've had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn't been for the American nuclear umbrella.
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I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.
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The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany.
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
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If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.
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I always wanted to be a surgeon, because I had a lot of admiration for my father, who is also a surgeon. I also wanted to be a heart surgeon. That was motivated by the fact that my young aunt, a sister of my dad, died in her early 20s of a correctable heart disease.
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Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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What made me move up to welterweight was all the effort I was doing, to look at my health and have a good life. I wanted to stop sacrificing so much.
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I kind of do think of myself as a superhero and just flying high, and doing these crazy flips.
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I couldn't imagine having to write a paper and have to think about what song I am going to sing.
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Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.
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Whenever I'm in sync with the trends, it's always an accident. I still love wearing clothes I've had for ten years. I think understated luxury is the chicest thing.
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My father told me once not to expect anything from anybody so I wouldn't be disappointed. If somebody was nice and did nice things for me, I should be overjoyed, but I shouldn't go through life expecting it, which is very good advice.
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God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.
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My interest is always to get as deeply as I can into the minds and spirits of the characters and let the readers empathize or judge as they will.
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To me, success is making a positive difference through art - making art that affects the world and that changes the way people feel about themselves and the world.
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We can see that the complexity we witness inside the African-American community today has always been there. Black people were just as noble and just as ignoble as anybody else.
