Henry Louis Gates Quotes

The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred.

Henry Louis Gates

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

BusinessTruthSadWorldImpossible

And you don't want to just totally mess up the rhythm when you're playing with Bob Dylan.

Jenna Elfman

YouWantRhythmMessUpPlaying

The more I see the less I know for sure.

John Lennon

KnowMoreSeeI SeeSureLess

There's nothing sadder than when things happen the way you've planned them, because we don't have a lot of imagination, you know.

Robert Lepage

ImaginationYouThings HappenKnow

One Christmas, Dennis Dermody, the movie critic of 'Paper,' gave me 'Rock Hudson: A Gathering of Friends,' the master invitation list from Rock Hudson's memorial service. It's so great. Everyone's in it, with personal addresses all bound into a book. Someone else once gave me Ike Turner's will. I get great stuff.

John Waters

GreatServiceMeBookSomeoneRock

I always love writing the third book in a series because you get to tie up all the threads that you put out in the first two books. You finally let people know what really happens and reveal all the secrets and bring certain characters together.

Trudi Canavan

LoveTogetherPeopleWritingBook

I'm much more on the phone to Mr. Kevin Pietersen these days than anybody else I know.

Trevor McDonald

PhoneKnowMoreDaysThanMuch

French people are strange about America, I think.

Michel Hazanavicius

PeopleThinkAmericaStrangeI Think

Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.

Luigi Pirandello

WorkHopeHeartTimeAnimalLogic

It is, and long has been my opinion, and I have heard honourable members in this House declare it to be theirs - that it is the duty of Parliament equally to protect all the different interests in the country.

Joseph Hume

OpinionLongHouseCountryDuty

Everyone else in the world still thinks of American food as ketchup.

Jose Andres

FoodWorldAmericanEveryoneStill

Life is short, so there is no reason why you shouldn't live it to the fullest expression of yourself.

Coy Bowles

LifeLiveYourselfLife Is ShortYou

The United States - you know, native people are large landowners, but the military has a huge chunk of our territories. And in those, there are a number of places that are our sacred sites.

Winona LaDuke

PeopleYouKnowPlacesMilitaryOur

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