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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The concept of marriage must have been thought up by an unimaginative pig.
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With global warming, I'm never going to time-travel. It's probably going to cause some major emission problems.
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Now we have so many more social outlets, so many ways to be stalked and bullied. If social media is too much for you to handle, then don't have a Twitter or Facebook account. Just be yourself. Be who you want to be.
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Guys don't really don't wanna hear if it's really smart, and women feel uncomfortable if you reveal stuff they're going to have to remember they did themselves.
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Some books are well-received with critics; other books sell.
Colson Whitehead
