Colson Whitehead Quotes
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In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
Karl Liebknecht -
How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
It doesn't matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners, people will like you.
Kate Reardon -
At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.
Walter Pater -
When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose.
Karl Ove Knausgaard -
Anyone that makes me a quarter of a billion dollars, I like.
Carl Icahn
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The fitness builds the foundation for me as an actor to have clarity. Fitness has always been the base of where I start off as a performer.
Manu Bennett -
Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
Orison Swett Marden -
Engaging Iran won't guarantee improved U.S.-Iranian relations or a more stable Gulf region. But not engaging means more of the same.
Samantha Power -
An example of my average week would be the gym on Monday; Tuesday will be a technical session. I practice running and high jump on Thursday and then have another technical session at the weekend.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
A lot of people think that reptiles don't feel, and they do. I think everyone should keep in mind what it is they are buying and if it is really worth it to them.
Laura Vandervoort -
The idea of recklessly spending money - even though it sounds like it's lots of fun, it's fashion - isn't interesting to me. It is a business.
Kate Spade
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When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body.
C. Northcote Parkinson -
The older you get, the more you believe in God, whatever face he wears.
Orson Scott Card -
Few things are more shocking to those who practice the arts of success than the frank description of those arts.
Logan Pearsall Smith -
If it be of the highest importance to man, as an individual, that his religion should be true, the case of society is not the same. Society has no future life to hope for or to fear; and provided the citizens profess a religion, the peculiar tenets of that religion are of very little importance to its interests.
Alexis de Tocqueville -
There are 'extremists' in the free software world, but that's one major reason why I don't call what I do 'free software' any more. I don't want to be associated with the people for whom it's about exclusion and hatred.
Linus Torvalds -
It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.
Arthur Eddington
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Sometimes my heart hurts so much, I beat it with my fists. I try to run. But you cannot run from this. It waits for you. Even when you think you have escaped it, it is there.
Klaus Kinski -
I can't say that it's a dream come true because when I was growing up, I never dreamed of playing in the Olympics.
Brooke Sweat -
Elevating the status of women is our best path to peace, justice, and prosperity on a global scale.
David Horsey -
It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl.
Carla Gugino -
The absence of state capacity - that is, of the services and protections that people in rich countries take for granted - is one of the major causes of poverty and deprivation around the world.
Angus Deaton -
I'm not a representative of blackness, and I'm not a healer.
Colson Whitehead