#alex

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

The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#americas #columbus #conquer #discover #great

But, I would be naive not to recognize the number of musicians who tell me they have been influenced by me and sight me - as well as Alex and Neil - as a musician who has been a positive influence on their playing. ↗

— Geddy Lee

#been #i #influence #influenced #me

If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes. ↗

— Plutarch

#i #were #would

How much do you have to pay someone to be in a George Clooney/Alexander Payne film? Nothing! Because everyone in the world wants to be a part of it. Therefore you pay nothing. And that continues until you become something they need... I'm not that kind of actor. I'm blue collar and very replaceable. ↗

— Matthew Lillard

#alexander #because #become #blue #blue collar

Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer? ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#been #had #homer #madman #much

Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even. ↗

— Will Rogers

#been #being #closest #country #even

I was saluted by Alex Ferguson when I was subbed and that made me very happy. ↗

— Cristiano Ronaldo

#ferguson #happy #i #made #me

I've had to deal with everything but everyone has helped me, including Sir Alex Ferguson, to get through. George Best was a good friend of mine. We loved each other, we both knew where we were coming from. ↗

— Paul Gascoigne

#best #both #coming #deal #each

When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen. ↗

— Alexander McQueen

#century #dead #gone #i #know