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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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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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
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In a sense, these people were the vanguard of a well-to-do and well-educated proletariat of the future, boxed up in these expensive apartments with their elegant furniture and intelligent sensibilities, and no possibility of escape.
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Everybody laughs when fatty falls down.
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'It always seemed to me they’re sort of alike,' he said, 'magic and music. Spells and tunes. For one thing, you have to get them just exactly right.'
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North American leftists just keep trying to relive the '60s, or to make the '60s happen again.
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I like to know how I'm supposed to feel about things. Just a little clue or hint.
Colson Whitehead
