Colson Whitehead Quotes
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Today's kids aren't taking up arms against their parents; they're too busy texting them.
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My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what's unsustainable in their communities. That's the future.
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A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
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Anyone who still supports George Bush would still let Michael Jackson babysit their kids.
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To me, charity often is just about giving, because you're supposed to, or because it's what you've always done - or it's about giving until it hurts.
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I think that a lot of kids today focus on impressing each other. And while that's really nice, you also have to think about your future, about getting into a good school.
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I just love kids. I always have.
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I'm not a divorce monger by any means, but if you're not happy in a relationship, and you've grown apart, it's not healthy for a couple to stay together. It's better for kids to see two happy parents than two miserable parents.
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When kids look at broccoli, they call it 'little trees,' because they see it not just for the word 'broccoli.' They see it for what it looks like, the image. We, as adults, forget to think like that. We forget to think figuratively and have to be reminded.
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The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.
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The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.
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More than 200,000 kids have had their lives transformed by ARK. I use that word properly.
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My dad is a football guy, not a music guy. He didn't totally understand when I decided to be a musician.
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An ideal day for me is a combination of a fun-exciting creative moment with work partners, some laughs and games with my kids, a good surf session, and great conversation with friends around a meal.
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I was the kid who was too geeky for the other kids.
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We go around and talk about what are each of the kids most proud of from the previous week.
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When I was a little kid I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in nightclubs.
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I get, like, 50 emails a day from kids being like, 'I want to go on this trip around the world. How do I get a sponsor?'
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You know, the polls show that 70 percent of the people are for stem-cell research.
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When we make records, it's hard to pinpoint one thing that inspires a record. It's usually a number of different things that lead to inspiration or wanting to write something down and share it with someone.
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I'm a big fan of a great glass of red wine and a delicious bowl of pasta made from scratch.
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I envied kids who played soccer and football, but that was not my gig.
Colson Whitehead
