#want

I want to get into the educational DNA of American culture. I want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less, to be black. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#american culture #black #common #culture #dna

So, Mexico, Brazil, they wanted their national culture to be 'blackish' - really brown, a beautiful brown blend. And finally, I discovered that in each of these societies the people at the bottom are the darkest skinned with the most African features. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#beautiful #blend #bottom #brazil #brown

You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#africa #alex #back #case #envy

I want to live as private a life as I can because of our children. ↗

— Melinda Gates

#children #i #i can #life #live

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a clown. I didn't want to be an actor, I wanted to join the circus and entertain people. ↗

— Eric Stonestreet

#circus #clown #entertain #entertain people #i

You see me, I wanted to be fashion designer. I became fashion designer. So I think that everything is possible. ↗

— Jean Paul Gaultier

#designer #everything #fashion #fashion designer #i

I never wore full-on eyeliner in high school, but I wanted to. ↗

— Adam Lambert

#high #high school #i #never #school

The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#average #before #choosing #committee #crap

You can't trust politicians. It doesn't matter who makes a political speech. It's all lies - and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well. ↗

— Bob Geldof

#applies #lies #make #makes #matter

I like food. I like eating. And I don't want to deprive myself of good food. ↗

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

#deprive #eating #good #good food #i