Colson Whitehead Quotes
I like to explore different ideas of race, how the concept of race has evolved in the country. It's one thing I enjoy talking about, but I don't feel compelled to talk about it.Colson Whitehead
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I live in the moment, and I reflect later.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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I have two older brothers. I am the baby. We're all very, very close. We're great communicators, so we get along really well.
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I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy.
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I don't get hung up a lot on angst.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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It's so fascinating to think about how each snowflake is completely individual - there are millions and millions of them, but each one is so unique.
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I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.
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I'll admit, sometimes I've paid the bills with acting. You know the phrase, 'It's one for the money, two for the showreel.' I don't want that as a director. I don't want to compromise myself. There's a big old wide world out there. I want to explore it.
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You just can't bifurcate bitcoin currency from the technology. Bitcoin will always need a monetary base.
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A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
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Boundaries are actually the main factor in space, just as the present, another boundary, is the main factor in time.
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If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
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I never wanted to be a public intellectual or a talking head.
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Every character I approach, from 'Forrest Gump' all the way up to 'The Spoils Before Dying,' has a different set of requirements and always fascinates me.
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What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before.
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Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.
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The indwelling presence and power of the Spirit are to be sought and received by faith in God's word of promise.
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I think modern educational theorists are inclined to attach too much importance to the negative virtue of not interfering with children, and too little to the positive merit of enjoying their company.
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At the end of the day, we're all brothers and sisters in God. What people do is none of my business.
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I like to explore different ideas of race, how the concept of race has evolved in the country. It's one thing I enjoy talking about, but I don't feel compelled to talk about it.
Colson Whitehead
