Henry Louis Gates Quotes

What happened in the interim is, billions of records have been digitized. Historians and scholars have always used genealogical records to tell the story of American history. It takes months and years of research. I can't even tell you how laborious that is. You have to be somebody who has a lot of free time, like a professor who can take tenure or someone with a great deal of leisure.

Henry Louis Gates

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• I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Writing
  • Singing
  • Dreams

• I know a lot of actors who get a part and then they dissect it and they want to change it and they want to add stuff. I'm always amazed and so impressed by actors who do that.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Want
  • Change
  • Know

• My holy grail is fusion energy. Nuclear fusion has little to no radioactive waste. It's clean. It's very abundant. The fuels are everywhere. There are problems with fusion.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Energy
  • Problems
  • Clean

• Just because you have a hit doesn't mean you're good [at music]. Just means you got a hit.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Good
  • Music
  • Hit

• It is just a wonderful, wonderful time to be alive and to be able to be part of the ever-growing spiritual awareness that is happening around the world.

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • Time
  • World
  • Growing

• I've not been right for any man or myself since I met you.

  

  Leon Uris
  • Man
  • Myself
  • I Met

• The top 10 per cent of the US population appropriated 91 per cent of income growth between 1989 and 2006, while the top 1 per cent took 59 per cent.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Growth
  • Population
  • Top 10

• The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Mind
  • Success
  • Fear

• I want people to know they don’t have to live their lives in a permanent ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ existence. Truth is a powerful tool.

  

  E. Lynn Harris
  • People
  • Live
  • Truth

• I must have dialogue with the Chinese government, and dialogue requires compromise. Therefore, I'm speaking for genuine self-rule, not for independence.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Government
  • Chinese
  • Self

• It is folly to believe that Congress and the president, on their own, will make the necessary and difficult decisions to address the impending financial debacle. After all, they and their predecessors engineered the approaching tsunami. As the situation becomes direr, the federal government's actions will grow more oppressive.

  

  Mark Levin
  • Believe
  • Action
  • Financial

• It's possible to be completely enlightened... except with your family.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Family
  • Except
  • Enlightened

• Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as a legislature, Sleep is as forward as hives or goiters, And where it is least desired, it loiters.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Nature
  • Sleep

• It is sometimes of God's mercy that men in the eager pursuit of worldly aggrandizement are baffled; for they are very like a train going down an inclined plane - putting on the brake is not pleasant, but it keeps the car on the track.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Men
  • Gods
  • Mercy

• Political correctness kills discussion.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Political
  • Discussion

• I came to you one rainless August night. You taught me how to live without the rain. You are thirst and thirst is all I know. You are sand, wind, sun, and burning sky, The hottest blue. You blow a breeze and brand Your breath into my mouth. You reach—then bend Your force, to break, blow, burn, and make me new. You wrap your name tight around my ribs And keep me warm. I was born for you. Above, below, by you, by you surrounded. I wake to you at dawn. Never break your Knot. Reach, rise, blow, Sálvame, mi dios, Trágame, mi tierra. Salva, traga, Break me, I am bread. I will be the water for your thirst.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Night
  • Reach
  • Thirst

• History was a series of decisions about what to tell and a series of accidents about what survived after telling. Not truth, but a historian could search for truth, and the search was as worthy as any other human activity.

  

  David Drake
  • Decision
  • Search
  • Activity

• What happened in the interim is, billions of records have been digitized. Historians and scholars have always used genealogical records to tell the story of American history. It takes months and years of research. I can't even tell you how laborious that is. You have to be somebody who has a lot of free time, like a professor who can take tenure or someone with a great deal of leisure.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Deals
  • Historian
  • Leisure