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Henry Louis Gates Quotes

My mom, God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me Skip. There was another black guy in Piedmont, W.Va., and his name was Skip. They called him Big Skip, and I was Little Skip.

Henry Louis Gates

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: critic
Nationality: american
Birth: September 16, 1950

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God Soul Me Mom Rest Name

I never lost the desire to coach.

Jeff Van Gundy

Lost Desire Never Coach

If we have an honest discussion on whether the war on poverty should be fought with welfare or with economic growth in the private sector, Democrats will lose black votes.

Alveda King

Growth War Black Poverty Lose Will

I personally am very active with the women's prison association, and I designed a locket, and 100 percent of the proceeds go to the women's prison association.

Alysia Reiner

Women Prison Go Active Association

No central planning, no autocratic rule and no military regime can produce what free man can do.

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

Man Free Planning Military Rule

Shiv Nadar University has five schools with 16 departments offering 14 undergraduate, 10 master's and 13 doctoral programmes. The demand for engineering courses - computer science, engineering, electronics, communication engineering, mechanical engineering - is slightly on the higher side compared to other engineering courses.

Shiv Nadar

Communication Science Engineering

There are so many things we have not seen in 'Spider-Man' yet... I want to use bad guys never seen in movies. The first films were so traditional and so scrupulously followed the character's classic plot... So there's a lot of stuff left in stock. 'The Clone Saga,' for example.

Tom Holland

Character Bad Want Movies Never

My friends and I started that motto early in high school - that attitude, that mentality - from way back then: Want to go to Stanford? Why not? Want to play in the NBA? Why not?

Russell Westbrook

Attitude Motto School High School Go

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.

Rudyard Kipling

Women You Go Afghanistan Out Up

I've played the drums for so long, I can't imagine saying goodbye to it.

Miguel Ferrer

Goodbye Saying Long Imagine Drums

My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.

Lord Byron

Mind Me View Point Of View Now Turn

Hollywood is a strange place if you're in trouble. Everybody thinks it's contagious.

Judy Garland

You Place Trouble Hollywood Strange

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

Joseph Conrad

Great Fog Blessed World Warm Rule