Colson Whitehead Quotes
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.
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I've always been into older homes, even if I have to refurbish or remodel or raise roof lines or knock out walls.
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Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.
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It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.
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I hate wasting people's time.
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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
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Reggeton has changed very much, musically. It has evolved. The artists have also evolved.
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When I heard his first songs, Dylan was answering certain questions that I had all my life been asking myself.
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I look forward to strengthening the U.S.-U.N. partnership and working closely with Secretary of State Kerry towards our shared goals of peace, development, and human rights.
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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.
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I try to make myself do things for other people when I'm feeling down. Like, you can call your local hospital and help out in the pediatric unit.
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If I were to say you are crazy, what part of that would you find unacceptable?
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I was gonna work in a university, but no one was hiring.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.
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Work hard.
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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular? Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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It's a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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'I'm sure you didn’t mean to hurt anyone.'Madoc Roswyn laughed a soft forlorn laugh. 'The sad truth is that I didn’t care-which may be worse.'
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A good leader should focus on making sure everyone is being given the tools to do their job, not just expecting - poof! - that they're going to produce great work.
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It is important for the poet not to be emotional because you cannot see the world clearly with tears in your eyes.
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I like to know how I'm supposed to feel about things. Just a little clue or hint.
Colson Whitehead
