Colson Whitehead Quotes

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• A new untruth is better than an old truth.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Truth
  • Better
  • Truth Is

• I know I can serve Hawaii and our country well in the U.S. Senate, know we can mount a solid statewide campaign, know we have a good chance of prevailing.

  

  Ed Case
  • Good
  • Country
  • Chance

• Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • World
  • Black
  • Longevity

• Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It was all discovery. It was all just thrown at me.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • Family
  • Me
  • Discovery

• I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment to make it palatable. Otherwise it becomes a polemic, and people don't want to see it. If you're trying to get a message out to people, you've got to entertain them at the same time.

  

  Larry Cohen
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• I've been trying to get cast as a lesbian for years.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Trying
  • Years
  • Lesbian

• I got in trouble for saying I would move my family to Europe, but I said it.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Family
  • Said
  • Saying

• Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Criticism
  • Creation
  • Motto

• After the falling out with my father, I worked on a couple of ranches - thoroughbred layup farms, actually - out toward Chino, California. That was fine for a little while, but I wanted to get out completely, and twenty miles away wasn't far enough.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Father
  • Couple
  • California

• I was raised in Hollywood by my mother.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Mother
  • Hollywood
  • Raised

• The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • People
  • Strong
  • Rights

• Everybody literally thinks I've had plastic surgery. My mom's family call her, and they're like, 'Did Hailey do her lips? Did she do her nose?' Do people want me to go to a doctor and have them examine my face so they can tell people I haven't? My face has just matured. I grew into my looks.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • People
  • Family
  • She

• I think science fiction helps us think about possibilities, to speculate - it helps us look at our society from a different perspective. It lets us look at our mores, using science as the backdrop, as the game changer.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Different
  • Think
  • Game

• Now don't stir. I'll be back in five minutes. And don't fall into any temptations while I am away.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Fall
  • Back
  • Minutes

• In place of the bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, shall we have an association, in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Society
  • Free

• Once Ptolemy and Plato, yesterday Newton, today Einstein, and tomorrow new faiths, new beliefs, and new dimensions.

  

  Albert Claude
  • Today
  • Plato

• I always felt like what I was doing wasn't selling toys; I was making a happy sound at Christmas. When people hear something so familiar, it brings them back to a special place, and that's been meaningful for me.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • People
  • Happy
  • Christmas

• My Chicago is beautiful and diverse. It was able to give me all parts of the world all in one.

  

  Clemantine Wamariya
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Chicago

• You've always been my best friend, my soul mate, and now I've fallen in love with you too. Why is that such a crime?

  

  Tabitha Suzuma
  • Why
  • Soul
  • Friend

• I don't know how it is with other writers, but most of the time when I finish [reading] a story or novel, I may be pleased, I may even be impressed, but somewhere in the back of my mind I'm thinking, I can do that.

  

  F. Paul Wilson
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• As I get older, my skin shows more of how I am feeling, like a mirror. If I am stressed, or not getting enough sleep, I see it in my face right away.

  

  Joanne Froggatt
  • Feeling
  • Sleep
  • Mirror

• There's always an attack on the sophomore novel from some quarters.

  Colson Whitehead