Henry Louis Gates Quotes
Everybody wants to have sex - you don't have to have a baby when you're 16. You don't have to do drugs. I think our Sunday schools should be turned into Black history schools and computer schools on the weekend, just like Hebrew schools for Jewish people, or my Asian friends who send their kids to schools on the weekend to learn Chinese or Korean.
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
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I'm terrified about psychic people who have their little shops. I always walk across the street and go somewhere else. Imagine if one of them came out with their face all pale and said, 'Hurry up and enjoy yourself.' No one wants to know that.
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If we don't enforce visa laws, we basically have open borders.
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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
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As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening.
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I have worked with top directors like Rajamouli and Vinayak and with upcoming directors like Vamsi.
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Most people hoard their money - just keep it in the bank. Bitcoin will really take off when people start spending it, creating a velocity of money.
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What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.
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I've been approached after shows from people who said, 'I don't agree with anything you said, but I laughed the whole way through.' That's still a little strange to me. Like, nothing, really? But at the same time, that's what happens in a conversation.
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It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to the whole world with his words and music.
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Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
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Be very nervous of the shaky hands.
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My swing is no uglier than Arnold Palmer's, and it's the same ugly swing every time.
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TRUE! - nervous - very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?
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I want to bring us together as a nation to recognize the humanity and support the potential of all of our people.
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I will be merciful, and I will believe in people. If I am to err, I will err on the side of mercy. I will give people the benefit of the doubt. I will bend, but not break, in order to give people the opportunity to grow and develop.
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In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
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Right from my childhood, I have believed in a Supreme Power. I don't know whether it has form, or it is formless. I am a high school dropout. How come life has given me so much? It's not my intelligence, it's not my abilities. This understanding makes me scared even in success. I don't own my success. Neither do I own my failure.
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We must realize that violence is not confined to physical violence. Fear is violence, caste discrimination is violence, exploitation of others, however subtle, is violence, segregation is violence, thinking ill of others and condemning others are violence. In order to reduce individual acts of physical violence, we must work to eliminate violence at all levels, mental, verbal, personal, and social, including violence to animals, plants, and all other forms of life.
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Everybody wants to have sex - you don't have to have a baby when you're 16. You don't have to do drugs. I think our Sunday schools should be turned into Black history schools and computer schools on the weekend, just like Hebrew schools for Jewish people, or my Asian friends who send their kids to schools on the weekend to learn Chinese or Korean.
