Colson Whitehead Quotes

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• Buildings are always better than drawings and models.

  

  Rafael Moneo
  • Always
  • Better
  • Buildings

• The very fact that women now form about one-fifth of the employes in manufacture and commerce in this country has opened a vast field of industrial legislation directly affecting women as wage-earners.

  

  Florence Kelley
  • Women
  • Country
  • Now

• Yes, we're pretty into books around my house. We have lots and lots of books around. We have TV, but really no one ever watches it.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • Pretty
  • House
  • Books

• Imagine if someone like John Lennon or Bob Marley, Sid Vicious, Picasso, whomever, were doing their work, and some corporation, some CEO, some branding entity was saying to you, 'Well, you can do that, but you've got to remove this aspect of your work.' There would no longer be that purity anymore.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Work
  • Doing
  • Saying

• I am certainly not a good Muslim. But I am able now to say that I am Muslim; in fact it is a source of happiness to say that I am now inside, and a part of the community whose values have always been closest to my heart.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Community

• There are no friends at cards or world politics.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • World
  • Friends
  • Politics

• The marriage state was designed to complete the sum of human happiness in this life. It sometimes proves otherwise, but this is owing to the parties themselves, who either rush into it without due consideration or fail in point of discretion in their conduct towards each other afterwards.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Life
  • Marriage
  • Happiness

• At first, I did have that thought, like, 'Oh crap, what are we going to do after?' Then I realized 'Girl in a Country Song' was an honest, truthful song, and we were telling our truth, and that's all we have to do - write songs that are true and tell our stories.

  

  Madison Marlow
  • Country
  • Truth
  • True

• I am proud of having done what I've done. Very proud.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Done
  • Proud

• I have a relatively good track record.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Good
  • Record
  • Track

• I'm definitely an underdog.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Definitely
  • Underdog

• American life is based on a reassurance that we like one another but won't violate one another's privacies. This makes it a land of small talk.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Life
  • American
  • Small

• It doesn't interest me to be Harrison Ford. It interests me to be Mike Pomeroy and Indiana Jones and Jack Ryan. I don't want to be in the Harrison Ford business. I take what I do seriously, but I don't take myself seriously.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Business
  • Interest
  • Seriously

• With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Nothing
  • Succeed
  • Without

• I exercise three to four times a week, doing the Tracy Anderson Method, which involves toning and strengthening our small muscle groups.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Small
  • Exercise
  • Week

• I've had it up to my ears with the personal mythology. It's getting kind of personally sickening. The personal stuff just turns out to be misinterpreted. I've had such an earful for so long, it's gotten tedious. I figure if you stay away from it, you're safe.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Up
  • Long
  • Kind

• I've always said I'm the worst representative of Muslim-Americans that's ever existed, because I've been inside more bars than mosques.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Always
  • Said
  • Inside

• Serving up ads based on behavioral targeting can itself be an invasion of privacy, especially when the information used is personal.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Up
  • Information
  • Privacy

• If a jar of wine is left in place a long time, the wine in it becomes clear, settled and fragrant. But if it is moved about, the wine becomes turbid and dull, tainted throughout by the lees. So you, too, should stay in the same place and you will find how greatly this benefits you.

  

  Evagrius Ponticus
  • Wine
  • Benefits
  • Moved

• I think you can get the wrong impression about me from my work and think I'm always a bit down. I'm not that way at all. I'm fun-loving.

  

  Sting The Police
  • Work
  • Fun

• When you are making an album, it is about the purpose - you are creating both a concept and vibe, then you follow through with that.

  

  BJ the Chicago Kid
  • Purpose

• 'Star Wars' is populated by so many great types; who wouldn't want to be a Han Solo kind of dude?

  

  Ben Mendelsohn
  • Great
  • Star

• I hate a movie that will end by telling you that the first thing you should do is learn to love yourself. That is so insulting and condescending, and so meaningless. My characters don't learn to love each other or themselves.

  

  Charlie Kaufman
  • Movie
  • Hate

• I do write about race a lot, but I don't think writers - of any shade or background or whatever - have to write about certain subjects.

  Colson Whitehead