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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Before Juilliard, I was a schoolteacher for a little bit. I taught in a charter school. I was a substitute teacher for kids ages 3 to 6.
Samira Wiley -
My favorite sport, frankly, is college football. I'm a college football junkie, even though I'm associated with golf and like golf and have played it all my life.
Dan Jenkins -
Even the pallid daughters of Albion forget for a moment their Pre-Raphaelite poses by burying themselves in the sonorous sortilege of the Antilles.
Alejo Carpentier -
It is an award for American excellence that excludes and sometimes gracefully includes some other countries. It is an institution or brand created by Hollywood to promote itself, an award decided by 15 people. How nice it would have been if Satyajit Ray, instead of all his awards, got a few more audiences?
Kamal Haasan -
Long-term trauma for women who have survived armed conflict is a haunting reminder that health issues and depression can follow decades after the end of war, but women who hope for healing can and do move forward.
Zainab Salbi -
I'm raising kids, and so much of American culture sustains me and gives me things to think about and work on.
Colson Whitehead