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.Henry Louis Gates
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
Walt Whitman -
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.
Natascha McElhone -
All peoples have contributed to the overall progress and enhancement of human life.
Hamza Yusuf -
I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
Joanne Rowling -
I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
Samuel L. Jackson -
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.
Haley Barbour
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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.
Pat Buckley -
The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany.
Otto Schily -
We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
Kary Mullis -
If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.
Victor Koo -
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.
Magdi Yacoub -
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
Calvin Coolidge
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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.
Rafael dos Anjos -
I kind of do think of myself as a superhero and just flying high, and doing these crazy flips.
Gabby Douglas -
I couldn't imagine having to write a paper and have to think about what song I am going to sing.
Naima Adedapo -
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.
Xun Kuang -
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.
Padma Lakshmi -
A lot of the time, when people meet someone in a wheelchair, or with some disability, it's the first thing they notice, but they don't know how to react.
Zach Anner
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I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.
Gail Carson Levine -
People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth.
Carly Fiorina -
Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory.
Irena Sendler -
I do not believe in eating fish hot. People always insist on hot fish, but that leaves it dried out.
Geoffrey Zakarian -
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.
Henry Louis Gates