Colson Whitehead Quotes

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• By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.

  

  Zach Woods
  • School
  • Home
  • High

• I am a very reclusive, private person.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Person
  • Private
  • Reclusive

• I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Know
  • Me
  • Travel

• I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Long
  • Reality
  • Road

• I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Great
  • Support
  • Going

• Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Thing
  • Moderation
  • Excess

• I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Want
  • Dark
  • Negative

• I don't really set out to please anybody, and I don't think I ever have. I have occasionally been encouraged to try to write something specifically for the purpose of releasing it as a single to get radio play. Those are not my best songs, as a rule.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Think
  • Single
  • Best

• My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Jewish

• In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • World
  • Dream
  • Sweet

• We need to see a Palestinian state.

  

  Abdel Fattah al-Sisi
  • See
  • Need
  • Palestinian

• Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • Failure
  • Difference
  • Happens

• I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Like
  • Outside
  • Philadelphia

• In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Society
  • Celebrity
  • Everyone

• Dancing is something I do. Not something I just want to do. It's something I just do, depending on how I'm feeling. I don't see myself taking that as just a job.

  

  Adam G. Sevani
  • Job
  • Want
  • Feeling

• A lot of times, songs can blend together on the radio because there's so many great songs out there.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Great
  • Together
  • Radio

• In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Life
  • Real
  • Pretty

• I fight because I like challenges.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Like
  • Fight
  • Challenges

• My name is Danielle. I'm eighteen. I've been stealing things for as long as I can remember.

  

  Elizabeth Scott
  • Remember
  • Stealing
  • My Name

• You have some people that's weak, and you have some people that's strong. I consider myself a very strong person.

  

  Blac Chyna
  • People
  • Strong

• The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community did not come easily. Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact.

  

  John Henrik Clarke
  • People
  • American
  • History

• Human rights can only be assured among a virtuous people. The general government . . . can never be in danger of degenerating into a monarchy, an oligarchy, an aristocracy, or any despotic or oppresive form so long as there is any virtue in the body of the people.

  

  George Washington
  • People
  • Long
  • Liberty

• I'm a little hesitant to make my characters sentimental or to risk having the work labeled sentimental. It's something that I resist as a reader, and I don't resist it in life. I'm not an unmoved person by any stretch, but I think I don't want, I guess, to indulge those kinds of things sometimes in fiction. I can't tell you why exactly.

  

  Antonya Nelson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Why

• You can raze the old buildings and erect magnificent corporate towers, hose down Port Authority, but you can't change people.

  Colson Whitehead
  • People