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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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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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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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 think I got an Instamatic camera when I was 8 years old, and ever since then, I've liked to record things. I don't know why. Maybe it's just to kind of try to leave some kind of record behind.
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I used to regard genres as being embedded in cliches, and I always felt funny about the need we have to label things. But I'm happy to think of 'Starred Up' as a prison drama, although we tried to smuggle in some elements of family drama in there.
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I listen to a lot of criticism. From the Left and the Right and from everywhere. I mean, everybody's a media critic. And sometimes I think it's on point, and other times, I think about it and consider it and then might ultimately disagree with it. But I do listen to it; I really do.
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The crowd, still shouting, gives way before us. We plough our way through. Women hold their aprons over their faces and go stumbling away. A roar of fury goes up. A wounded man is being carried off.
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Another thing which is about as sure as death and taxes, is that no man can go on bluffing indefinitely without being called.
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There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.
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The great thing about cake is it doesn't feel like work. You forget about work. Kids, adults, they all get the same look in their eye when they're decorating cakes... That's the magic right there.
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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.
