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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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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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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'Why did you stop at a red light and let me hit you doin' 80?!'
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I suggest that US foreign policy can still be defined as 'kiss my ass or I'll kick your head in.' But of course it doesn't put it like that. It talks of 'low intensity conflict...' What all this adds up to is a disease at the very centre of language, so that language becomes a permanent masquerade, a tapestry of lies.
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I'm the most sampled and stolen. What's mine is mine, and what's yours is mine, too … I got a song about that … But I'm never gonna release it. Don't want a war with the rappers. If it wasn't good, they wouldn't steal it.
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Analytical philosophy was very interesting. It always struck me as being very interesting and full of tremendous intellectual curiosities. It is wonderful to see the mind at work in such an intense manner, but, for me, it was still too far removed from my own issues.
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'Is he dangerous?'Anyone who lies for a living is dangerous.'
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The only choreography I have in my act is where I walk about ten feet, from stage right to stage left. Then I say, "You may be wondering why I went from over there to over here. Well, that was choreography.
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And in fact, one of the central reasons why I never got involved with any drugs or anything is that I remember talking to people in maybe 1975 who saw Hendrix but couldn't remember it. I was like, 'How could that be?'
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The great thing about revision is that it's your opportunity to fake being brilliant.
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It's a day to remember. It seems to me (to be) the natural continuation, after much thought.
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I'm not in a hurry to do a lot of projects. I am very resolved in each project I take on.
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Some books are well-received with critics; other books sell.
Colson Whitehead
