#close

I'm still really close with everyone at home and their parents - and their brothers and sisters. I was so, so, so lucky to grow up as part of a community and I don't take that for granted. I try very hard to stay part of it. ↗

— Jennifer Garner

#close #community #everyone #granted #grow

I'm friends with a lot of actresses, but my 'SNL' friends are my closest. The experience of working there is something of a battleground, a great one, but complicated. I think there's a deep connection for having survived that workplace. ↗

— Ana Gasteyer

#closest #complicated #connection #deep #experience

It's definitely like being in some weird sorority. I'm friends with a lot of actresses, but my 'SNL' friends are my closest. ↗

— Ana Gasteyer

#closest #definitely #friends #i #like

We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be. ↗

— Bill Gates

#close #dream #even #finishing #pc

The Dominican Republic says 'We're black behind the ears.' And in Mexico, 'there's a black grandma in the closet.' They know, they've just been intermarrying for a long time. But if we did the DNA of everyone in Mexico a whole lot of people would have a whole lot of black in them. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#behind #black #closet #did #dna

Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#because #claim #closely #everyone #him

Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs. For my own people, it was important to imagine him as the Great Emancipator, the Moses who led us out of slavery. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#because #claim #closely #everyone #great

I didn't feel particularly close to my father. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#father #feel #i #particularly

An aggressive drug-testing program would cut down on certain abuses, but its never going to catch everyone - or even close to everyone. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#catch #certain #close #cut #down

We're getting closer to our nature. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#getting #nature #our