Colson Whitehead Quotes
I'm raising kids, and so much of American culture sustains me and gives me things to think about and work on.Colson Whitehead
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I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.
Damian Lewis -
I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.
K. D. Lang -
I watch 'Entourage.' I aspire the good life that they live and lead. Honestly, I am just trying to be me by trying to do good films, have fun at it and trying to work with good directors, and, of course, I am a bit of a silent party boy, also. I have my share of fun sometime, too.
Ranbir Kapoor -
If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
N. R. Narayana Murthy -
Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.
Carl Jung -
The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
C. V. Raman
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
Fidel Castro -
I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.
Rachel Zoe -
One cannot plan for the unexpected.
Aaron Klug -
My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
Laura Linney -
I've been around a while. I kinda know these things.
Larry Bird -
My parents got me in trouble when I was in school because someone was getting bullied, and I didn't do anything about it. I just watched it happen and then came to the school, and I got cussed out for not helping and not being a part of it.
Zendaya
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Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Carl Sagan -
Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.
Felix Dennis -
History's lesson, of course, is that attempts to suppress free expression have merely confirmed the caricaturists' original critique of heavy-handed and objectionable actions of overreaching governments.
Nazanin Boniadi -
I think what makes me different from the average Joe is that I feel free to be myself and express myself in the way that I want. If that makes you mad, we're living in a world of dire straits. If anything, it makes you more sane.
Paloma Faith -
Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
Fran Lebowitz -
I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
Jack White The White Stripes
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The Olympics is a daunting thing. We have to face the fact that (by doing it this way) we'll cut our players short a little bit.
Phil Jackson -
Chess is a competition. Checkers is a competition. Mostly, I'm interested in doing real sports.
John Skipper -
Investors are always biased to invest in things they themselves understand. So venture capitalists like Uber because they like driving in black town cars. They don't like Airbnb because they like staying in five-star hotels, not sleeping on people's couches.
Peter Thiel -
Whether we're conscious of it or not, our work and personal lives are made up of daily rituals, including when we eat our meals, how we shower or groom, or how we approach our daily descent into the digital world of email communication.
Chip Conley -
I'm raising kids, and so much of American culture sustains me and gives me things to think about and work on.
Colson Whitehead