Henry Louis Gates Quotes

We can't all work in the inner city. And, I don't even think that it is incumbent upon an African-American intellectual to be concerned in their work with problems of race and class. It's just one of the things, that we here at the DuBois Institute, are concerned about.

Henry Louis Gates

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

Jim Carrey

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Stage fright is my worst problem.

Andrea Bocelli

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Preparing for a stunt is like training for a sporting event.

Jean-Paul Belmondo

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I don't listen to music a lot in that I rarely sit down and put on a CD because I really want to treasure the silence that is there when I'm not practising. But when I listen to a piece, I listen to it often.

Stephen Hough

MusicSilenceDownTreasureWant

When I first started acting, somebody once said to me that anything that is a problem that prevents you from getting a job will eventually be a strength. It works both ways. The odder you are, the harder it is to get work, but once you sort of establish it, you have no competition.

Tom Noonan

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Sexuality didn't come into it when I was bullied, but for so many years, being LGBTQ was one of the biggest things you would be bullied for at school. Hopefully, as time goes on, it will be a completely accepted thing that people won't have to think about.

Tom Daley

TimeSchoolPeopleThinkYouWill

When I joined films in 2002, there were all kinds of rash and unkind comments that were made about my looks in the reviews.

Dhanush

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When I'm sitting writing, I know that something works if I've made myself cry, or laugh, or have a visceral emotion.

Brit Marling

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If I was just to shut up, I wouldn't be a true artist.

ASAP Ferg

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I keep a night light on because my room is so full at night, I can't get to sleep!

Sylvia Browne

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More people seem to know the Van der Graaf Generator material than my solo work - thanks, I suppose, to their parents' lingering vinyl collections.

Peter Hammill

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We tap into something when we're honest about what's going on in our lives.

Sheryl Sandberg

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