Colson Whitehead Quotes
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When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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Life's a challenge, but that's the best part.
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Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.
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There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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All of my high school issues are resolved!
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You just want to be able to have a nice career and make a living at it.
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We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.
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You get to relive your childhood when you have a baby and you see these toys and these books you read when you were little - the innocence that you are able to maintain because you have to find that again in order to connect with your child keeps you in a special state of mind.
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I grew up watching horror movies with my dad. For as long as I can remember. I grew up loving being terrified. 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' at sleepovers. Hiding behind my fingers.
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Nobody ever said I'm a simple personality.
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One of my favorite comedies is 'Groundhog Day' and 'Scrooged.' I love Bill Murray, and I think he's a great example of an actor who is funny.
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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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Apparently I work for free, look at some of the independent films I've done.
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Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world - and there clearly are - then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.
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Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
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I was working with stem cells as part of a NASA programme. We realised that the science of stem-cell proliferation was also fundamental to cancer cells when cancer enters the phase of metastasis.
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Travel is no more than a relatively healthy form of narcotic, after all.
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I really enjoy playing that everyman part because that part is us, the audience. And you need somebody inside a comedy to tether the absurdity to reality.
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I was a very happy child, so to speak. But, since we didn't have video games or television, and very little radio, in terms of a form of entertainment, I used to read a lot and I would draw a lot, and those two things used to occupy my time.
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My mother has always instilled in us that we should carry ourselves with dignity despite the horror that came with the civil war. She also taught us that where you come from is very important because that's what makes you who you are. So for me, whatever I've gone through had profoundly shaped me; it has given me strength and unwavering faith.
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Working lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability.
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Some books are well-received with critics; other books sell.
Colson Whitehead
