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Henry Louis Gates Quotes

I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.

Henry Louis Gates

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Justice Prison Think Want System

The greatest difficulty always comes right before the birth of a dream.

Dream Birth Right Always Difficulty

I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.

John D. Rockefeller

Money Making Money You Know Nothing

States are looking for low-cost solutions that will enable better communication, while avoiding the danger in which the chain of command breaks down in emergencies. We do not want everyone talking to everyone else all the time.

Communication Time Looking Better

My brain goes in just one direction. The Future. I don't worry about the present. By the time you talk about the present, it's gone.

Stefano Pessina

Future Time Brain Direction Present

For me, making a record is a vacation. I'd like to do it more often. Just, chances are impossible... It's a very expensive hobby, you know?

Steven Van Zandt

Vacation Me Impossible Hobby You

'The Magic Flute,' I think, is fundamentally asking what is it to change people's consciousness.

Change People Think Magic Asking

I'm not a big fan of the thought that you can become a star by winning a contest. I'm sort of old-fashioned. I think people need to get out there and they need to work and they need to do their music because they love it. If they become successful, then great, and if they are not, whatever.

Work Love Music Great People Think

Some advice: keep the flame of curiosity and wonderment alive, even when studying for boring exams. That is the well from which we scientists draw our nourishment and energy. And also, learn the math. Math is the language of nature, so we have to learn this language.

Nature Curiosity Flame Energy Learn

My personal style is kind of random; it's always changing - I'm a Pisces! Sometimes I like one particular style for a season, and the next season I will dress totally different.

Style Dress Random Sometimes Kind

I spent a lot of my childhood in my own head, making up stories. I didn't have a lot of outside influences, so I was able to make my own decisions about what I wanted to do.

Childhood Decisions My Own Outside

We've lost 400,000 jobs in Michigan because of downsizing.

Debbie Stabenow

Lost Michigan Because Downsizing

Under no condition can you teach curiosity.

Curiosity You Teach Condition

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