#hem

I loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved everything about them - the songs, the music, the romance and the spectacle. They were real class and I knew that I wanted to be in that world. ↗

— Sharon Stone

#astaire #black #black and white #class #especially

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act. ↗

— Bill Gates

#believe #i #i believe #i believe that #moved

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. ↗

— Bill Gates

#getting #important #just #kids #most

I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty. ↗

— Bill Gates

#enormous #farmers #firsthand #hunger #i

Certainly I'll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I've gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them. ↗

— Bill Gates

#being #bit #certainly #countries #developed

Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they're not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them. ↗

— Bill Gates

#because #buying #card #comes #credit

Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits. ↗

— Charles J. Givens

#any #area #become #habits #identifying

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

America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live up to them. But what I worry about are the 1 million black men in the prison system. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#america #black #country #ever #founded

If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you're related to them. It doesn't mean that you're going to invite them to the family reunion, but it means that you share DNA. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#dna #family #going #invite #mean